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If Quinn's view is correct, and if the distinction between direct and indirect agency is easier to draw clearly, and is not subject to redescription under the influence of our moral judgments about permissibility, then perhaps the objections outlined above can be answered.
Doctrine of Double Effect McIntyre, Alison 2009
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The rediscovery of Rhagomys rufescens: With a morphological redescription and comments on its systematic relationships based on morphological and molecular (cytochrome b) characters.
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It then languished in obscurity until 1982 when Ralph Molnar published a redescription.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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It then languished in obscurity until 1982 when Ralph Molnar published a redescription.
Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians Darren Naish 2006
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More or less everything we currently know about this snail is in Anderson & Smith A redescription of the carinate pillsnail, Euchemotrema hubrichti (Pilsbry, 1940) (Pulmonata:Polygyridae), with notes on habitat and genetics.
Euchemotrema hubrichti AYDIN 2008
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More or less everything we currently know about this snail is in Anderson & Smith A redescription of the carinate pillsnail, Euchemotrema hubrichti (Pilsbry, 1940) (Pulmonata:Polygyridae), with notes on habitat and genetics.
Archive 2008-07-01 AYDIN 2008
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Wimsatt assumes that a reduction is a causal explanation of an individual event (rather than a generality), involving a “compositional redescription” of a higher level state of affairs into some of its component features.
Reductionism in Biology Brigandt, Ingo 2008
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This is what I call representational redescription.
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The Bush administration wholeheartedly agrees, as evidenced by the orgy of redescription that now passes for American foreign policy.
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Persuasion across such fundamental differences is achieved, if at all, by concrete comparisons of particular alternatives, by elaborate description and redescription of the kinds of life to which different practices conduce.
Richard Rorty Ramberg, Bjørn 2007
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