The slash-and-burn gaiety of the coalition government has evolved into something more Kafkaesque: a system that doesn't work for anybody, on any terms, which is more costly but also more painful, and in which all reasonable objection is met with the blank inaction of a frozen polity.
Under the assumption that it is impossible to have two different phenomenal concepts of one and the same quale, the objection is met: As long as two qualia names Q and R refer to the same quale, replacing Q by R in an ascription of phenomenal belief cannot change the truth value of the belief ascription.
Both those objections were met soon after.
Nonetheless, Dr. Kochi wrote, although it was "less and less straightforward" that the health agency should recommend it, the agency's objections were met with "intense and aggressive opposition" from Gates-backed scientists and the foundation.
We interrupt this harangue to report that Mr. Lott's office now says the senator wants everybody to fill out the forms, and tells people to skip questions only if they threaten to toss their forms into the river unless their objections are met.
And then, as the paper went up in flames, it occurred to me that pretty much every one of these objections and conditions was met in the bill that passed the Senate last month, without the benefit of Ms. Collins', Ms. Snowe's, or any other Republican's support.
It was met by objections from no fewer than six other Tory cabinet ministers and agreement has yet to be reached on a long-delayed but promised counter-extremism bill.
Her decision was met with objections from religious groups, as well as some doctors and others who believe assisted suicide is a bad idea.
His statement was met with no objection.
The application to build 22 flats on the former pub site, which has been disused for the last three years, was met with strong objections from the local community.
Thus I think the ontological objection has been met as well.
