De Botton thinks it permissible for "creative writers" to adapt a fact or change a date because they will understand that "falsifications may occasionally need to be committed in the service of a goal higher still than accuracy: the hope of getting important ideas and images across to their impatient and distracted audiences".
But at the same time they might think it permissible to abandon these strict standards in ordinary contexts where not much is at stake for instance, the everyday belief that there is still some milk in the fridge.
If the body couldn't replace what was lost quick enough, he thought it was permissible to top that level up to its natural state.
Because he had applied for citizenship, he thought it was permissible to vote, his lawyer said.
For decades, judges thought it was permissible to fill in the gaps left by the ambiguities in the Constitution and laws.
Belichick has said that he misinterpreted the league's bylaws, telling Goodell that he thought it was permissible to use electronic equipment as long as the information was not used in the same game.
Only a small minority thought it was permissible, or even morally obligatory to conduct further research into human reproductive cloning.
I asked the students if they thought it would be permissible, by the law of Islam, to use a nuclear bomb during the prosecution of a jihad.
"I think it is permissible to weigh matters.
Why does it think it is permissible to send people with children and friends and parents out on a field to run at each other at crippling speeds, with the traffic directed only by officials with experience reffing Division III college games or ones who couldn't make it in the Lingerie Football League?
Translation into English, with applicability to the current conversation: I think it feels permissible for women now to make fun of men and back their fun up with the findings of "science" because there's no history of domination or discrimination behind the practice, or, frankly, any risk of future domination – though many boys' advocates would most likely argue otherwise.
