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discourse. Leon Kass, a bioethicist, has advocated that "in crucial cases...repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power fully...

relativist fallacy, also known as the subjectivist fallacy, is claiming that something is true for one person but not true for someone else, when in fact that...

could mean "I think... (something)"/"He thinks... (something)", "I think."/"He thinks.", or even "You (must) think... (something).", thereby necessitating...

associated with this undesirable member or action. "No true Scotsman would do something so undesirable"; i.e., the people who would do such a thing are tautologically...

bodies. This symbolizes the sting of their guilty conscience and the repugnance of sin.[citation needed] This may also be seen as a reflection of the...

of the Lord; whoever treats a person's face with repugnance treats the face of the Lord with repugnance. Whoever treats with contempt the face of any person...

regard for the practice, Pope Boniface VIII was known to have an especial repugnance of Mos Teutonicus because of his ideal of bodily integrity. In his bull...

windows theory Moral police Signal crime Islamic religious police Wisdom of repugnance Picking quarrels and provoking trouble John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, for...

hostile. Averse means having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, or repugnance. Merriam-Webster notes that adverse is commonly used as an attributive...

Kass's Wisdom of Repugnance presents a prime example of a feelings-based response to an ethical dilemma. Kass attempts to make a case against human cloning...

bell that was rung 100 times every day: "To the cons it was an object of repugnance and outrage, an unjustifiable punishment. A brass monster that we were...

method, or decision. This heuristic, operating on the notion that, if something can be recalled, it must be important, or at least more important than...

an instance of either of the two. Aversion is "a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it; a settled dislike; a...

Gloria Hodge, played by Dixie Carter, Orson's mother with an inexplicable repugnance towards her son. Alma Hodge, Orson's first wife, who comes on Wisteria...

more "correct"—which Elinor is more polite than Marianne, though her repugnance for vulgarity and selfishness is quite equal; and therefore she can "really...

prior to the invasion: "Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist." The...

explicit. Adorno's intellectual nonconformism was also shaped by the repugnance he felt towards the nationalism that swept through the Reich during the...

perceive something that makes them sick and such that it causes that X wants to stop perceiving Y’. Government Pattern 1) CII.2 : N denotes something that...

from a separate individual or group to the person: "I must have done something wrong if they treat me like this." Based on anecdotal and survey evidence...

is–ought problem). This usually takes the form of saying that If people do something (e.g., eat three times a day, smoke cigarettes, dress warmly in cold weather)...