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When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg questioned how the California law would be carried out and who would decide whether a video was deemed deviantly violent or simply violent, Scalia suggested:
High court weighs Calif. effort to ban sale of violent video games to minors Robert Barnes 2010
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When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg questioned how the California law would be carried out and who would decide whether a video was deemed deviantly violent or simply violent, Scalia suggested:
Supreme Court questions ban on sale of violent video games Cecilia Kang 2010
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When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg questioned how the California law would be carried out and who would decide whether a video was deemed deviantly violent or simply violent, Scalia suggested:
High court weighs Calif. effort to ban sale of violent video games to minors Robert Barnes 2010
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The recipe alone is wonderful--but the Dexter dedication makes it deviantly delicious!
Dearly Devoted to Darkly Dreaming Dexter Brilynn 2008
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Alice in Wonderland and Finnegans Wake are nearly detached from them, but not quite: they tell stories, and the stories are related, however deviantly, to the world or worlds we hold in common.
'On Eloquence' 2008
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He is deviantly the leader of the pack when it comes to the Internet.
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Most people would find the notion of someone altering their behavior or at least behaving deviantly for such a paltry incentive kinda ridiculous.
More Than Just a Haircut - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Intuitively, it seems that taking proper account of a reason may merely involve thinking about the evidential import of the reason in the appropriate way, and whether, in addition, the reason non-deviantly causes (or, causally sustains) the belief is merely a contingent, empirical matter.
The Epistemic Basing Relation Korcz, Keith Allen 2006
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According to (CD), the reason this meta-belief does not establish a basing relation is that it is not non-deviantly caused by both his belief in God and every other belief he has.
The Epistemic Basing Relation Korcz, Keith Allen 2006
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Intuitively, a belief's being based on a reason involves taking into account the epistemic import of the reason, and such a mental operation may be of two sorts: either directly causal (where a reason non-deviantly causes a belief) or intentional (where one has a meta-belief to the effect that a reason is a good reason to hold a belief).
The Epistemic Basing Relation Korcz, Keith Allen 2006
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