Such a Cocklecarrot court proceeding would be funny were it not so serious.
The judge who will oversee the trial said Sunday that the proceeding would be held in a large Cairo hall and broadcast on Egyptian television.
Unless we are to treat all Muslims as being somehow complicit in the attack, a guilt-by-association proposition contrary to every principle of fairness, any bar to the construction proceeding would be reprehensible.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who presided over that proceeding, would be hard pressed to argue that television's presence made a difference in how that trial was conducted, or that Americans should have been denied the opportunity to watch it.
But a more illuminating and less question-begging way of proceeding would be to ask how this goal relates to other epistemic values.
A better way of proceeding would be to discover some highly plausible general principles that any likeness theorist would find compelling, which would ideally uniquely identify the correct extension.
