One objection is that, at least on Burley's "standard" theory of positio, if a positum is possible but nevertheless known to be false, the opponent can maneuver the respondent into having to concede any proposition whatever consistent with the positum.
For it means that, starting from any known falsehood, one could reason counterfactually to anything whatever consistent with it.[25] Another objection might be that counterfactual reasoning, at least as we are thinking of it today, does not incorporate epistemic factors in the way the theory of positio does.
"It's also the coolest sneaker or the coolest pen or great stationery or a great raincoat," he said, "whatever is consistent with this certain sensibility that all the people who come to my hotels expect".
Consumer demand for groceries is pretty consistent, whatever the economic conditions.
And we will do whatever is necessary, consistent with our international obligations and ordinary decency, to stop the boats and that's exactly what we are doing".
She later turned to painting on canvas, but her signature image of a large-eyed, exotically beautiful woman's face remained consistent, whatever the medium.
Nor was it a case of late flowering, because Bourgeois's art has been consistent, whatever its materials, and whether in sculpture, installation, in drawing and printmaking and writing.
To identify the law of a given society we must engage in moral and political argument, for the law is whatever requirements are consistent with an interpretation of its legal practices (subject to a threshold condition of fit) that shows them to be best justified in light of the animating ideal.
The grooves between the knobs trap a film of air that is consistent whatever the orientation or depth of the whale, making it an excellent sound mirror.
Indeed, with the specific objectivity of the Rasch family models, the estimations of the parameters linked to the latent trait are consistent whatever the set of items that individuals responded to, whatever the nature (informative or not) of the missing data process [ 30- 32].
In agreement with this, the cumulative dose of Epirubicin received by the patients (adjuvant therapy plus advanced) is the only statistically significant risk factor for cardiotoxicity emerging from our analysis: this risk is consistent whatever the interval of time between the two strategies, and constantly rises as the number of Epirubicin administrations increase.
