In reading one of Norm's posts today, concerning views on liberty, it occurred to me that liberty may be one of those concepts that lends itself to adjudication.
As a natural scientist by training, I favor adjudicating the laws of natural origin using the scientific method. If philosophical theories are to be adjudicated, however, alternative means must be employed. As a scholarly discipline, philosophy, in my layman's view, is more akin to jurisprudence than to physics. Perhaps liberty can be adjudicated as per the most famous opinion from Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), decided by the United States Supreme Court.
Liberty. I knew it when I saw it.
As a natural scientist by training, I favor adjudicating the laws of natural origin using the scientific method. If philosophical theories are to be adjudicated, however, alternative means must be employed. As a scholarly discipline, philosophy, in my layman's view, is more akin to jurisprudence than to physics. Perhaps liberty can be adjudicated as per the most famous opinion from Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), decided by the United States Supreme Court.
Liberty. I knew it when I saw it.
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