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Noûs, 1971
How are we to analyze assertions of the form, a is made up of b and c, or of the form, a is made up of b, c, and d, or of the form, a is made up of b, c, d, and e, or ... etc. etc.? There are several possibilities. H-ere is one: constitutivity is treated as variably polyadic.
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How are we to analyze assertions of the form, a is made up of b and c, or of the form, a is made up of b, c, and d, or of the form, a is made up of b, c, d, and e, or ... etc. etc.? There are several possibilities. H-ere is one: constitutivity is treated as variably polyadic.
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Mind, 1992
Suppose that a statue of Goliath is made by fusing together two appropriately shaped pieces of clay and that after a few minutes, the artisan, frustrated with his work, dissolves the statue in a solvent which destroys clay and statue alike. Then a natural thing to say is that the careers of the statue and the lump or piece of clay which made it up are ...
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Suppose that a statue of Goliath is made by fusing together two appropriately shaped pieces of clay and that after a few minutes, the artisan, frustrated with his work, dissolves the statue in a solvent which destroys clay and statue alike. Then a natural thing to say is that the careers of the statue and the lump or piece of clay which made it up are ...
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The Review of Politics, 2006
Abstract This chapter examines the concept of constitutional identity as it applies to the Indian Constitution. It first considers the problem of constitutional identity, with particular emphasis on the preservative function of the constitution.
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Abstract This chapter examines the concept of constitutional identity as it applies to the Indian Constitution. It first considers the problem of constitutional identity, with particular emphasis on the preservative function of the constitution.
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Erkenntnis, 2017
A widely held view has it that sometimes there is more than one thing in exactly the same place, as is the case, allegedly, with a clay statue. There is the statue, but there also is a piece of clay—both obviously in the same place yet distinct in virtue of their differing properties, if only modal ones.
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A widely held view has it that sometimes there is more than one thing in exactly the same place, as is the case, allegedly, with a clay statue. There is the statue, but there also is a piece of clay—both obviously in the same place yet distinct in virtue of their differing properties, if only modal ones.
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Mind, 1993
In his interesting article "Constitution is not Identity" (1992) Mark Johnston argues that (in a sense soon to be explained) constitution is distinct from identity. In what follows I dispute Johnston's contention. In this section I explain what is at issue and the main positive argument Johnston gives for his position. In ?
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In his interesting article "Constitution is not Identity" (1992) Mark Johnston argues that (in a sense soon to be explained) constitution is distinct from identity. In what follows I dispute Johnston's contention. In this section I explain what is at issue and the main positive argument Johnston gives for his position. In ?
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Constitutions, Politics, and Identity
2011What are Constitutions and, if Constitutions are constitutive, what do they constitute? Each of these questions might give rise to at least two different answers. In a legalistic vein a Constitution might be defined as a document or set of documents that codify the role and process of government by enumerating and limiting the powers of government and ...
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The impact of EU identity on constitutional identities •
Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies, 2022AbstractSince the Maastricht Treaty, two questions remain: what is the EU, and is there such as thing as an EU identity? Because of its specific nature, and in view of the political accession criteria, it seems there is an EU political identity. Consequently, the purpose of this article is to evaluate whether this EU political identity has had an ...
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2018
The chapter examines the metaethical foundations of the argument from constitutional identity. This argument locates the source of value in a set of deep and self-identifying evaluative commitments that develop in a society in virtue of the fact that it has a constitution.
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The chapter examines the metaethical foundations of the argument from constitutional identity. This argument locates the source of value in a set of deep and self-identifying evaluative commitments that develop in a society in virtue of the fact that it has a constitution.
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Constitutional Identity as Discourse: Mis-identity and Dis-identity
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Co-constituting Fijian identity: the role of constitutions in Fijian national identity
2018This chapter focuses on the role that constitutions play in national identity, particularly in states that are recently independent and constrained by a colonial legacy. It uses Fiji as a case study, exploring how British colonialism influenced conceptions of Fijian national identity in the constitutional texts of 1970, 1990 and 1997.
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