However, this conception does not readily allow for disagreement: prima facie, it is not incoherent to think that two individuals, each of whom is competent with the application of t1 x), …, tn(x), may differ as to whether some p must be endorsed or whether some expression is genuinely platitudinous.
For older children, most of whom are competent computer users, it is an interactive and enjoyable medium.
The existence of so few specialists in mammography requires that the majority of exams be read by general radiologists, many of whom are very competent, but also by others who have little interest or experience in the field.
One might assume that this approach is based on a libertarian analysis according to which it is permissible for competent and informed individuals to do whatever they prefer, provided those with whom they interact are competent, informed and in agreement.
But I had apprehensions about how Hellman's badly dated "Children's Hour" would serve Ms. Moss (best known as the ambitious Peggy of "Mad Men") and especially Ms. Knightley (queen of the costume lit flick), whom I had thought competent but flat in Molière's "Misanthrope" last year.
How can they do this if even the competent speakers whom they seek to emulate cannot detect when these correspondences hold?
Because they don't understand all of the science, a lot of the opinion they form of you, as a competent person whom they may be investing in or partnering up with, will be a result of the way you come off in your business plan.
At the end of the day, though, we may have no moral option but to coerce reasonable and epistemically competent peers whom we recognize have no reason from their perspective to recognize the legitimacy of the laws to which they are subject.
He returned to England in April 1573, having established himself as a competent official whom the Queen and Cecil could trust.
