They are still expected to take a hands-on interest in their constituents' drains, potholes, traffic lights, arguments with the police and admissions to schools and hospitals, while they have no real power to do anything about any of it.
His style is allusive, he is light on argument and he piled up distinctions with Latin labels in scholastic fashion.
Good students will eventually see the light, one argument goes, and as for the others — well, they probably weren't going to be biologists anyway.
Viewed in that light, the argument for upholding California's gay marriage ban has merit — not because the policy is fair or wise (it isn't) but because it represents a reasonable judgment that the people of California are entitled to make.
I have a very clear, long-held view on this: that "no platforming" unpopular views is counterproductive, discourages debate and the due dissection of error, and pushes views one would like to contest openly underground, where they may well flourish better than if exposed to the clear light of argument (which is one of the things that universities are for).
As in the case of his theory of light, this argument involves a shift of meaning.
Determining what is in that basic tier must be clarified in light of arguments about how to protect fair equality of opportunity under reasonable resource constraints, and these arguments require a fair process (accountability for reasonableness) in which appropriate democratic deliberation can take place.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 - A proposed agreement among nine Northeast states to cap greenhouse gas emissions from power plants casts a new light on arguments in New Jersey and Vermont about whether the licenses of two aging nuclear plants should be extended.
A1 Nuclear Plants May Affect Pact A proposed agreement among nine Northeast states to cap greenhouse gas emissions from power plants casts a new light on arguments in New Jersey and Vermont about whether the licenses of two aging nuclear plants should be extended.
But I have read a contrarian scientist who presented different evidence that, perhaps, the conventional thinking on this needs to be adjusted in light of arguments put forward by Plimer and others.
