The prescriptions being offered by New Democracy and Pasok are more similar than in many elections past, a situation that leaves voters to make subtle distinctions and speculative judgments.
Barnes, for his part, criticized the expert for the plaintiffs, Beverly Hills psychiatrist Brian Jacks, for dismissing much current trauma research for his own "speculative" judgments.
He thought that the New Testament history of Jesus Christ, viewed simply as history and not as miracle, can lead to a practical rather than a speculative judgment affirming Jesus' divine mission.
In some sense, the newspaper industry has succumbed to a speculative rush to judgment.
But such judgments are speculative, and though pollution is a factor, a bigger one is simply how much fresh water is available.The most ambitious measure is the "water poverty index" developed by a team led by Caroline Sullivan and Jeremy Meigh at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, England.
DORGAN: I worry very much that the fusing together of the idea of banking, which requires not just safety and soundness to be successful, but the perception of safety and soundness...to merge it with inherently risky, speculative activity, is in my judgment unwise...There are some notions that represent transcendental truths, that are true over time.
To the extent that CMA-related diagnoses remain uncertain, ensuing clinical action is speculative, subject to variation in clinical judgment, and has received even less empirical attention.
Reid writes: "Our moral judgments are not, like those we form in speculative matters, dry and unaffecting, but from their nature, are necessarily accompanied with affections and feelings …" (EAP III.iii.vii: 180).
He says, "Our moral judgments are not like those we form in speculative matters, dry and unaffecting, but, from their nature, are necessarily accompanied with affections and feelings" (EAP 3.3.7, 180).
"The balance of power would move from those making speculative short-term purchases in times of war to the judgment of those who had made their investment decision in peacetime," said Carr.
