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COUNTENANCE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Thus, just as mathematical constr uctivism countenances only those mathematical entities that can be constr ucted from a proof,18 political construc17.
The problem with inclusive legal positivism is that it countenances rules that are incapable of either directly or indirectly epistemically guiding conduct.
Evolution would have been countenanced long before, but for the opposition from landed and clerical interests who feared its deadly threat to the divine ordering of the world.
Should this sceptical scenario be countenanced, it would appear that realists go beyond their epistemic rights in inferring from a theory's success, to its probable truth or verisimilitude.
In each of the four cases, the deaths are in a real sense instrumental, necessary for the greater good, envisaged, foreseen, and voluntarily countenanced for that very reason.
Given the relation between a predicate and the property that is its meaning, it follows that adopting a particular predicate scheme entails countenancing a particular distribution of properties.
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