A sibling of this objection is that rule-consequentialism makes the justification of rules depend on the wrong facts (Arneson 2005; Portmore 2009).
This approach to the justification of rules of inductive logic without the label "reflective equilibrium"—was proposed by Nelson Goodman in his classic Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (Goodman 1955).
The heated debate surrounding whether to roll back various broadcast television ownership federal regulations came to the fore on Jan . 3 when comments were due on a study commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to develop justification for rules now on the books.
There, the Portuguese-speaking world's predisposition to melancholy (at least outside Brazil) has ample justification: colonial rule that was by turns negligent or brutal, and a heartbreaking post-colonial history of coups, political assassinations (four so far this year) and civil war.
A related objection to rule-consequentialism is that rule-consequentialism makes the justification of familiar rules contingent on various empirical facts, such as what human nature is like, and how many people there are in need or in positions to help.
But rule-consequentialism goes beyond Rossian pluralism by specifying an underlying unifying principle that provides impartial justification for such rules.
In proof theory, little attention has been paid to atomic systems, although there has been Lorenzen's early work (see section 2.1.1), where the justification of logical rules is embedded in a theory of arbitrary rules, and Martin-Löf's (1971) theory of iterated inductive definitions where introduction and elimination rules for atomic formulas are proposed.
Oil companies complained, with some justification, that the rules, and Mr. Bloom's interpretations, were maddeningly arcane.
In the last two years, the court, in a stream of opinions, has heavily criticized the commission's justification for some rules and either struck them down or ordered the commission to reconsider them.
They also requested that the Pentagon adopt written guidelines, with supporting legal justification, for the rules of engagement security contractors should follow, as well as instructions on coordinating with the military and the future sovereign Iraqi government.
