I don't know if he meant to, but Rawls is gesturing at something really provocative - the idea that, regardless of whatever metaphysical or ethical beliefs we may hold, there is something common to human experience.
He would show a more playful side of himself than is sometimes evident in his stories, coining provocative aphorisms: "The idea of America is dead," he told Lynn Barber in 1970, "because America was built on the assumption that tomorrow is a better day".
SAN FRANCISCO--The provocative idea that thousands of house-sized comets disintegrate daily in Earth's atmosphere came under heavy fire by skeptics here at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
The idea that respectable women did not wear trousers was the convention, but perhaps more provocative still was the idea of Le Smoking as the first truly unisex garb.
He would throw out a highly provocative idea such as the idea that the West has entered a post-capitalist society, thanks to the importance of pension funds—without really clarifying his terms or tying up his arguments.There is some truth in the first two arguments.
I have some expectation that the Fed will, in fact, find it difficult to begin raising interest rates or even something that might be less provocative, which is the idea of draining liquidity from the system by paying interest on reserves held by the banks.
Science fiction has long married cheap thrills to provocative ideas, but in the age of "Prometheus," an alien movie struggling against its own philosophizing, striking the right balance poses the biggest challenge.
In "Memorial," the British poet Alice Oswald has had the provocative idea of boiling down the poem to two of its most striking features: the gruesome fatalities and the similes that often lie in pastoral counterpoint to the action.
The first and most important aim of the paper is the derivation of what the authors have called The Free Will Theorem, putting forward the provocative idea that if human beings are free to make their choices about the measurements they will perform on one of a pair of far-away entangled particles, then one must admit that also the elementary particles involved in the experiment have free will.
Eliza Goroya, one of the organizers, confirmed it was Seraphim's provocative comments that inspired the idea for the protest.
Eliza Goroya, one of the organisers, confirmed it was Seraphim's provocative comments that inspired the idea for the protest.
