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People seem to be able to integrate information from arbitrary domains to reach plausible overall conclusions, as when juries draw upon diverse information to render a verdict about whether the prosecution has established its case "beyond a reasonable doubt".
After the jury decides that Duggan wasn't armed at the time of his death, the group clearly expects the main verdict – about whether the killing was lawful or not – to go against them.
This bivalent character of capacity judgments derives from the special practical function of capacity determinations, which is to issue an 'all-or-nothing' and 'yes-or-no' verdict about whether a person can make a particular decision for herself or not (Buchanan & Brock 1989, 27).
This is something that requires empirical testing, but it is hard to imagine someone thinking that the fact that one would have to kill an innocent person in order to save five didn't count against it, or that the fact that their act would save five innocent people didn't count in favour of it, regardless of their overall verdict about whether they should kill the one or let the five die.
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Clearly individual speakers must have some implicit assumptions about the reference of a word that guide their verdicts about whether it applies to particular cases (Jackson 1998a, 29 42).
As noted in Section One, different versions of ersatzism deliver different verdicts about whether possible worlds are qualitatively indiscernible from one another.
Your verdicts about whether the stuff on Twin Earth counts as water, for instance, depends on whether you think of Twin Earth as a hypothesis about your actual environment or as a purely counterfactual possibility.
The jury's unanimous verdict about government programmes was notable in the light of their divergent views on whether or not they would be screened themselves in the future.
"Weak," was Captain Comics's verdict about "Age of Ultron".
Mr. Blair delivered the same verdict about Mr. Putin.
The verdict about Abraham Lincoln among this group was unanimous.
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