Loving our neighbor is programmed into our genes, provided we understand that neighbors are members of our tribe — our extended family — and thus share many of our genes.
Ibn 'Arabî (1165 1240) can be considered the greatest of all Muslim philosophers, provided we understand philosophy in the broad, modern sense and not simply as the discipline of falsafa, whose outstanding representatives are Avicenna and, many would say, Mullâ Sadrâ.
There is much to be said for this, provided we understand the danger.
To quote the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church approved at the council: "The order of bishops, which succeeds to the college of apostles and gives this apostolic body continued existence, is also the subject of supreme and full power over the universal Church, provided we understand this body together with its head the Roman Pontiff and never without this head".
Provided we understand "context" to include both sorts of facts, we can describe the mapping conception as a conception on which narrow content is a function from contexts to broad contents.
Indeed, such interventions as summarized in Tables 1 and 2 might in principle be effective most of the time provided we can understand how to give the appropriate message in a way that becomes an integral part of the recipients' life.
Further, we could know the relevant conditionals a priori even if we were BIVs, provided we adequately understood the concepts involved.
Indeed, utopian visions are not out of place, provided that we understand the new utopias to be fleeting localized "islands in the Net" and not permanent institutions.
Arguably it does, provided that we understand moral fact as being independent of our opinions about it and our procedures for trying to establish it (Campbell 2001).
But this too can be reconciled with Spinoza's naturalism, provided that we understand that the power or authority of clerics devolves upon them from the power or authority of the sovereign.
