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No political party, religious or ideological camp, no single-issue crusade or wide-scope social cause has a monopoly on the jerks, simpletons, and just plain morons who end up in government at every level.

Richard Greener: Public Office In America: The Reign Of Idiots 2010

In any case, if modularity requires only weak (i.e., wide-scope) encapsulation, then Fodor's argument against central modularity no longer goes through.

Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009

What one has reason to do, on this view, is what one would desire or intend to do if one was fully rational (i.e. fully in compliance with the wide-scope structural requirements that govern one's attitudes in combination).

Practical Reason Wallace, R. Jay 2008

That the occasionalist would take divine causality to be the paradigm case, of course, is no surprise, and this might indeed explain why Geulincx and Al-Ghazālī held the wide-scope view.

Occasionalism Lee, Sukjae 2008

Nadler has made the interesting suggestion that the wide-scope application of KP could have been motivated by the view that takes “volitional agency to be the paradigm of causality” (Nadler 1999, 270).

Occasionalism Lee, Sukjae 2008

Many philosophers take such structural requirements at face value, granting that practical reason is rightly governed by and responsive to these wide-scope demands.

Practical Reason Wallace, R. Jay 2008

As Andrew Reisner and others pointed out to Broome, however, if one follows him in taking the “ought” in such a normative requirement to be an all-things-considered “ought,” then one must admit that even such fundamental, wide-scope principles are subject to being overridden.

Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007

Yet, community newspapers have the wide-scope task of reporting information of great significance to a number of people.

National Month of the Community Press 2007

The latter is a particularly useful introduction to the difference between a wide-scope disjunctive requirement and a narrow-scope disjunctive requirement -- a slight difference that makes a lot of difference.

Notes for Noting and Links for Thinking 2006

The new center is similar in concept to the civilian National Counterterrorism Center, which was developed in 2004 as a wide-scope defensive bulwark in the wake of the Sept. 11

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