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If the point of environmental policy is to abate nuisances and promote better states of affairs, then maybe a moralized language that focuses on individual acts rather than aggregate consequences is out of place. Similarly to external circumstances which affect the possibility of emerging states of affairs, and impose a certain course of events, the premises affect the potential standpoint of the speaker and impose him a way of thinking, valuing and judging. The postmodernist, Rortyan, pragmatic view of truth-that there was no correspondence between statements and actual states of affairs, but only varying degrees of usefulness-became standard. |
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