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"Water is still pre-critical mass," added John Oldfield, vice president of Water Advocates, the Washington-based group that lobbies for more attention to water-related health issues.
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Works on Kant's pre-critical treatments of the concept of God
Kant's Philosophy of Religion Rossi, Philip 2009
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We are told that one approach to philosophy is critical while another is pre-critical dogmatism.
The curious critical/dogmatic divide from Kant to Ken Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Mark stayed relatively the most coherent of the four, but some of his opening statements about Satan as a fallen angel hail from longstanding pre-critical interpretations of Isaiah's oracle against the king of Babylon in Isa 14 and Ezek 28 which is a oracle against the king of Tyre cast in imagery from the creation narratives and a description of him as a Cherub.
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The rest of this entry thus will locate the more important works in which Kant's discussion of these topics takes place, first, within the general philosophical context of his so-called “pre-critical” period; it will then reference his treatment of these topics after
Kant's Philosophy of Religion Rossi, Philip 2009
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We are told that one approach to philosophy is critical while another is pre-critical dogmatism.
Archive 2009-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Insofar as Kant professed embarrassment about his pre-1770 essays, it might be tempting to divide his discussion of Leibniz into a pre-critical (before 1770) and a critical phase.
Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008
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In his pre-critical writings, the Nova Dilucidatio and the Essay on Some Considerations on Optimism, he seemed inclined towards the best of all possible worlds position, but in his critical period he denied that cosmic justice is an item of knowledge.
Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008
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For the Fundamentalist a commitment to an inerrant Bible requires an abandoning of any possibility of doing science that isn't subservient to a pre-critical reading of scripture.
Hidden Agenda? James F. McGrath 2008
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Since none of the ancient and not so ancient civilizations ever evolved beyond critical complexity – in fact, they’re all gone – they were all pre-critical civilizations.
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