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Richard Friedman argues: "[I]f there is no way of telling whether an utterance is authoritative, except by evaluating its contents to see whether it deserves to be accepted in its own right, then the distinction between an authoritative utterance and advice or rational persuasion will have collapsed" (Friedman 1973, 132).
Whether it deserves to be saved is another matter.
Whether it deserves to be called a science at all is a question I'll evade here.
The question of whether it deserves to be is more easily answered.
The characters are constantly asking questions about the nature of art: whether it deserves to continue through such a time and how fine is the line between ambition and opportunism?
And while Texas was expected to romp Thursday night against Texas A&M, questions about whether it deserves to play in the B.C.S. championship game may be as loud as they have been all season after the Longhorns escaped with a wild 49-39 win in front of 84,671 fans at Kyle Field.
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The new trade status became a fait accompli when the Senate overwhelmingly passed a trade bill on Tuesday to end what China considered a humiliating annual debate about whether it deserved to be treated as a normal trade partner or warranted punishment for its shortcomings along with countries like Libya, Iraq and North Korea.
Whether it deserved to die, or was killed off prematurely, will be debated endlessly by ideologues and experts who have sharply different views about the wisdom of walking away from accords that some argue have helped prevent nuclear war for almost 30 years.
But the popularity of a news story doesn't necessarily correlate with whether or not it deserves to be covered.
Whether or not it deserves to be a death sentence depends on your personal limits of forgiveness, and it's difficult to tell those who clashed with skinheads to bury the hatchet.
Critics drubbed "The Anarchist" upon its opening, calling the language stilted and wondering whether at 70 minutes it deserved to be on Broadway.
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