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  • Some obvious issues include internal migration, demographics, particularly the ageing population, and the pricing relativities between substitute products.

    High-Beta Houses, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • At the same time, I do consider the absolute prohibitions from which the relativities are derived to be objective.

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • I've already listed the relativities for murder. 3 classes of murder, 2-3 classes of manslaughter (depending on where you live), and a couple of classes of homicide that can be dismissed outright or made misdemeanor.

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • Of course, they had benefit of the oral law from the beginning, as well as the established Judges and their tradition per application relativities.

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • Our codifications are based on the absolute, with 'wiggle room' for the relativities.

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • At the same time, I do consider the absolute prohibitions from which the relativities are derived to be objective.

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • European enlightenment epistemology, Romantic thought began to grapple with both metaphysical complementarities and cultural relativities, where the

    Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007

  • He clarified the ethical demands of a God-centered life by applying obedient love or agape to all human situations, both personal and social, and insisted this included the earthly as well as the eternal, and required our best actions amid the relativities of the present world.

    Christian Siriano makes Whoopi. (No, literally.) | EW.com 2008

  • Generally speaking, religious conservatives regard the Truth by which they live as absolute and therefore appropriately capitalized, whereas liberals are more sensitive to its relativities -- to the ways different points of view splinter the single, all-encompassing Truth and leave us with myriad lower-case truths.

    Huston Smith - Why Religion Matters (3) William Harryman 2007

  • It is not clear, however, whether such ˜hidden relativities™ really do provide a model for our supposed ignorance of the context-sensitivity of knowledge sentences.

    Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

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