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See: absolute, actual, axiomatic, certain, conclusive, concrete, de facto, definite, definitive, demonstrable, explicit, express, fixed, incontestable, peremptory, positive, precise, specific DETERMINATE. That which is ascertained; what is particularly designated; as, if I sell you my horse Napoleon, the article sold is here determined. This is very different from a contract by which I would have sold you a horse, without a particular designation of any horse. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 947, 950. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Fox's argument, familiar enough, is that the magisterium, counter to the judgment of most of the laity, many Catholic moral theologians, and even some bishops, reaches unpersuasive moral absolutes by discounting the relevance of experience and history and by employing an unrevised natural law approach that confuses the determinacies of biology with the indeterminacies of personal responsibility. |
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