On Nov. 6, voters in California will decide whether to adopt Proposition 36, a ballot initiative that would reform the most draconian aspects of the law — and, in our view, restore the original intent of voters, which was to lock away violent career criminals for life, without unjustly throwing away the lives of small-time, nonviolent offenders like Mr. Taylor.
The answer is to adopt the proposition set forth by Gen. U. S. Grant in our Civil War, and Roosevelt and Churchill in World War II: declaring irrevocably that the only acceptable end to hostilities is unconditional surrender.
The increasingly formidable Money Out /Voters In (MOVI) Coalition, Common Cause and the California Public Interest Research Group raised enough of a grassroots ruckus to inspire the L.A. City Council to adopt and place Proposition C on Tuesday's ballot.
Thus, even when two people share the same evidence, it is permissible for one to adopt one doxastic attitude toward a proposition and for the other to adopt a different attitude (also see Pettit 2006).
This is not an attractive proposition but it's what faces the UK homeowner who wishes to adopt any of the more specialised forms of energy efficiency.
Increasingly irate, voters then want to chastise the legislature even more.The best example was Proposition 140 in 1990, which made California one of the first three states to adopt term limits for legislators.
Of course, if one were to adopt the extensional point of view, and hence identify equivalent propositions, the contradiction above could not be derived.
What is more, it would have been manifestly paradoxical for the Academics to adopt the skeptical position if holding it meant taking themselves to know that its component propositions are true and assenting to them.
The nadir, some would say, came in 1978, when Proposition 13 essentially capped property taxes and made California the only state that requires a two-thirds vote of the legislature both to adopt a budget and to raise a tax.
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