Sentences with phrase «social consensus»

The level of social consensus among miners needed to implement a change that would cause a hard fork differs depending on whom you talk to.

He believes that secular reason will produce social consensus where religion fails but provides no empirical or historical evidence for this assertion.

A position on abortion that is logically connected with this view of human beings offers the best chance for a long - term social consensus.

A report from a workshop on climate communications that gathered leaders to explore why people reject the science of climate change and how to shift the dialogue in way that can build social consensus.

Considered collectively, official church statements on ethical questions seem to point to a possible solution to this issue in the abortion debate, a solution that may even point toward a broader social consensus on abortion.

To ensure a viable future for the country, the new order would have to rest on a foundation of truly reasonable norms, about which a stable and healthy social consensus could cohere.

A new social consensus must be forged about race and the role of race in defining the basic structure of our society, if we ever hope to abolish the New Jim Crow.

This means a hard fork to anything over 2 megabytes would likely not gain social consensus among Bitcoin Core contributors.

Many Bitcoin Core contributors find this hard fork to be contentious and would like to see something in the 90 to 95 percent social consensus range.

It comes from a combination of personal instincts (what is mine, what is fair, etc.), and social consensus (what is good for us as a whole).

If the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident — herein lies the real challenge for democracy.»

Perhaps more important than ecumenical consensus is the potential for a social consensus on abortion that this relational - activist view offers.

In fact, it is a view of human beings around which an ecumenical and social consensus may be evolving.

Can there, in fact, be democracy «if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus?»

This fantasy of self - sufficiency (which is merely a reminiscence of a vanished reputation) has been justified insofar as the theologian has busied himself in hunting for «alternative» realities that clash with the social consensus in which he has ceased to share.

This process of secularization is deeply connected to the rise of a neo-liberal economic and social consensus, one not based on traditional norms but united by a search for ever - greater utility.

The goal of full employment, which was one of the pillars of the social consensus that prevailed after the Second World War, has been jettisoned by nearly all governments.

But while there are important ways in which a Scandinavian commitment to social equality permits a social consensus for global openness, you may be much overstating the extent to which these social democratic and liberal settlements have moved away from redistribution.

Some estimates place the social consensus in Catalonia for the right of self - determination around 80 %, in a Catalan society that is nevertheless clearly divided about issue of independence.

The term is associated with a social consensus (usually expressed through democratic elections) that certain services should be available to all, regardless of income.

He should first seek «a social consensus,» they say, by consulting with the public, scientists, and others.

A new research study in the International Journal of Business Environment suggests that content providers must take a pragmatic view based on social consensus to persuade illicit downloaders that their behaviour is economically and ethically unacceptable behaviour among their peer group or other social group to which they belong.

To illustrate, once a social tipping point has been reached (for example, one million views or shares), the appeal of the social consensus itself becomes a self - perpetuating mechanism.

Moreover, disagreements over assessing secondary consequences always presume an agreement on how the technological development is carried out, yet that social consensus on progress is faltering.

His large - scale paintings explore the ambiguous boundaries between religion, folklore, and social consensus, particularly in relation to issues of mental health in East Africa.

It needs no social consensus, no vote, but is first and foremost free.

There is a social consensus that believes that carbon dioxide emission will cause catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.

Only after many years came the social consensus, he said.

Also, the social consensus on the other groups is just a whole lot wider.

The social consensus has moved on beyond those distinctions.

The petition is also a request for the government to respect people's property rights and introduce regulations after reaching a social consensus.»

The lawsuit asks the government to recognize property rights and adopt regulations based on a social consensus.

But social media browsing can create challenges for employers, as there is not yet a social consensus on which aspects of social media life are off limits to employers.