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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The original position is set up to exhibit that justification: to provide a compelling rationale -- drawing on such fundamental ethical notions as that human beings are free and equal moral persons -- for the fixed points or "considered convictions." Those convictions are to emerge as implications of the principles chosen in the original position.
		So the parties in the original position are to assess principles of justice in terms of the consequences of those choices for their level of primary goods.
		So a position is satisfactory or adequate just in case a person in that position can be expected to acquire a sense of justice which affirms the legitimacy of the system of positions and also have a conception of the good which they take to be worth pursuing and which supports their sense of justice.
	web.mit.edu /polisci/research/cohen/originalanddp.html (7685 words)

	Original Position (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2004 Edition)
		The original position is a hypothetical situation in which rational calculators, acting as agents or trustees for the interests of concrete individuals, are pictured as choosing those principles of social relations under which their principals would do best.
		Original position argumentation is an example of contemporary contractualism, involves a pure-proceduralist approach to the determination of moral principles, and is framed by reflective equilibration with widely agreed principles of public morality.
		The reasoners in the original position are not trying, through their deliberations, to ensure an outcome that meets some already existing standard of justice for institutions.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/win2004/entries/original-position (3642 words)

	20th WCP: Rawlsian Affirmative Action: Compensatory Justice as Seen from the Original Position
		Turning to Rawls' method, to adopt the original position is to place oneself behind a "veil of ignorance": it is to discount one's particular needs, interests, abilities, gender, race, religion, and socioeconomic status- in short, personal characteristics that are not shared by all others.
		Thus, in selecting distributive principles from the original position, one is not allowed to employ considerations the recognition of which would tend to make one partial towards those who share some or all of one's personal characteristics.
		It seems to me that the principles selected in the original position are not be violated unless it can shown that their suspension is entailed by the only effective means of redressing injustice, which, as will be demonstrated, is not the case.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Soci/SociAlle.htm (4094 words)

	Card printing method, original positioning holder, and car printing paper - Patent 5487340
		If the original set up regions are arranged on the original positioning holder symmetrically both longitudinally and laterally, the produced printing master plate is symmetrical about its longitudinal and lateral axes, and the corresponding printing paper may be fed without regard to its feeding direction, either its head first or its tail first.
		Each of the original set up regions R is provided with a layer of an adhesive agent 38 for removably attaching a card-like original C thereto in which the layer may either cover the entire region, or formed as spots or bands.
		Thus, the card-like originals C are mounted and retained on the original set up regions R designated by the original position set up position designating marks 34 on the base sheet 32 by virtue of the adhesive layer 38.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5487340.html (3081 words)

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		John Rawls: theory of Justice April 22, 2003 Although Rawls claim that his conception of justice originated from a social contract theory, which building on the legacy of Locke, Rousseau, and Kant, his justice concept is basically different from the perspective of social contract theory.
		Rawls did say this “original position of fairness” is only a hypothetical situation in the state of nature, but I think this “hypothetical” means nothing more than when Hobbes talks about the state of nature is constant war, Locke talks about the state of nature is natural law and rights.
		He believes that among these essential features of this original situation is that no one knows his position in society, and they don’t even know their conceptions of the good or their special conceptions of the good or their special psychological propensities.
	www.law.indiana.edu /instruction/scanlan/3111/papers/13F_LP.doc (581 words)

	RAWLS: THE ORIGINAL POSITION
		The people in the Original Position agree on the principles because given their postulated psychology and information there is no room for disagreement.
		The people in the Really Original Position, Rawls and his collaborators, designing the game for people in the so-called Original Position, are not themselves egoists, are not seeking to further their own interests as much as possible.
		He says that people in the Original Position are free from envy: 'bare knowledge or perception of the difference between their condition and that of others is not, within certain limits and in itself a source of great dissatisfaction'.
	www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/y64l13.html (3851 words)

	Original position - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original position is a hypothetical situation created by American philosopher John Rawls as a thought experiment to replace the imagery of a savage state of nature of prior political philosophers like Thomas Hobbes.
		As a thought experiment, the original position is a hypothetical designed to accurately reflect what principles of justice would be manifest in a society premised on free and fair cooperation between citizens, including respect for liberty, and an interest in reciprocity.
		In the original position, the representative parties select principles of justice that are to govern the basic structure of society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Original_position (603 words)

	Position Descriptions
		A position description is the official record documenting the major duties, responsibilities, supervisory relationships, and special qualifications assigned to a position by a supervisory or authorized official.
		If the position is supervisory in nature, the position description must include a supervisory duty statement that includes all supervisory and/or managerial factors credited under the applicable supervisory grading guide.
		This is true regardless of whether the new responsibilities arose spontaneously, were reassigned from another position, or came about as a result of the special talents and knowledge of the employee in the position.
	training.fws.gov /led/supvhandbook/positionmgmt/pds.htm (855 words)

	Position Management
		Position Management Officers function best when delegated the authority to review requests for evidence of sound position management and are then empowered to approve/disapprove requests as appropriate.
		Position Classification: The job classification system established under Title 5, United States Code (USC), based on two fundamental principles: (1) There should be "equal pay for substantially equal work;" and (2) Variations in pay should be in proportion to substantial differences in the difficulty, responsibility, and qualifications required.
		Position Management: Position management involves the design and control of an organizations position structure to blend the skills and assignments of employees with the goal of successfully carrying out the organization’s mission or program.
	www.lee.army.mil /cpac/Classification/position_management.htm (3964 words)

	Mormonism's Rejection of the Doctrine of Original Sin
		"Original sin may be taken to mean: (1) the sin that Adam committed; (2) a consequence of this first sin, the hereditary stain with which we are born on account of our origin or descent from Adam.
		In a child original sin is distinct from the fault of Adam, it is one of its effects.
		However, the occasion of a fault is not necessarily a fault, and whilst original sin is effaced by baptism concupiscence still remains in the person baptized; therefore original sin and concupiscence cannot be one and the same thing, as was held by the early Protestants (see Council of Trent, Sess.
	www.angelfire.com /ms/seanie/mormon/originalsin.html (3012 words)

	Introduction
		The original position is a hypothetical initial situation in which the parties, as representatives of citizens in general, choose the principles of justice that will guide the basic social structure.
		Hence, individuals in the original position are guided by their own choices to what is best for themselves and not by what ends or goods are best for a community.
		I take the original position to be a "device of representation" and the parties in the original position as hypothetical representatives who, behind the veil of ignorance, can come to some decision on the principles of justice that will guide society.
	www.colorado.edu /StudentGroups/PhilosophyClub/Referees/rawlscom.htm (3358 words)

	Visual formatting model
		The 'position' and 'float' properties determine which of the CSS2 positioning algorithms is used to calculate the position of a box.
		For relatively positioned boxes, the offsets are with respect to the outer edges of the box itself (i.e., the box is given a position in the normal flow, then offset from that position according to these properties).
		Relative positioning may also be used as a general form of superscripting and subscripting except that line height is not automatically adjusted to take the positioning into consideration.
	www.w3.org /TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html (7818 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Theory of Justice : Original Edition: Books: John Rawls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The fair position for choosing these principles is what Rawls calls "the original position." His argument has the following structure: he describes the original position, and then he argues that parties in the original position would choose a particular set of principles of justice.
		Parties in the original position are placed behind a veil of ignorance, where they are stripped of certain types of knowledge.
		This is not a historical argument: the original position isn't supposed to be a description of some situation people were once in.
	www.amazon.ca /Theory-Justice-Original-John-Rawls/dp/0674017722 (2513 words)

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		More than that the veil is the hypothetical device that the parties to the original position are behind, “they do not know how the various alternatives will affect their particular case and they are obliged to evaluate principles solely on the basis of the general considerations”.
		In the first place the contention is made as to whether the original position achieves genuine detachment from existing wants and desires.20 Sandel’s main issue with the Rawlsian original position is that he thinks that it is biased in favor of particular conceptions of the good and therefore in contradiction to others.
		So my original position begins here and essentially is made up of all kinds of individuals that have general knowledge, that is they know that there exists differences of race, class etc beyond the veil but do not know which one specifically they shall be a part of.
	www.brown.edu /Research/ppw/files/McCalpin.doc (8273 words)

	A Theory of Justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was originally published in 1971 and revised in both 1975 (for the translated editions) and 1999.
		His position is thus egalitarian, with a proviso that equality is not to be achieved by worsening the position of the worst-off.
		The assumptions of the original position, and in particular, the use of maximin reasoning, have also been criticized, with the implication either that Rawls designed the original position to derive the two principles, or that an original position more faithful to its initial purpose would not lead to his favored principles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice (1388 words)

	Notes 05: Original position (2)
		The "second fundamental comparison" in the original position is that between Rawls's two principles and what he calls the "principle of restricted utility," which is constructed from Rawls's principles by removing from them the difference principle and putting in its place the principle of average utility constrained by a social minimum.
		Recall that one of the constraints on the original position is the requirement on the parties to choose a conception of justice to be the public basis of social unity.
		This is due in part to the respect that the difference principle accords every citizen; even the least advantaged should be able to embrace a conception of themselves as full members of the public political world, in virtue of society's ideals and principles and the ways in which the more advantaged work to their good.
	www.uwm.edu /People/sensat/courses/941rawls/notes05.html (2463 words)

	Chapter 1: Restoring the Original Bible
		Jerome also placed the Book of Hebrews from its 10th place position in the manuscripts within the fourteen epistles of Paul and put it at the back (into the least position) because of its “Jewish” characteristics and because some western theologians questioned whether it was written by Paul.
		This tendency of Jerome (and his followers) to downgrade the letters of the so-called “Jewish” apostles into a lesser position of authority in the New Testament canon and to advance Paul’s epistles into a position of headship and prestige was done in order to exalt Rome and its western theology.
		We should return to this original 22 numbering of the Old Testament books (which was the number of books mentioned by the priest/historian Josephus as the enumeration that existed in the time of Christ).
	www.askelm.com /restoring/res001.htm (5658 words)

	'Official' Positions to Fire
		Most people, I suspect, do not wish for the spudgun to be right next to their ear even though you'd get just as badly hurt as if it was by their side.
		The main and foremost advantage of using this position is accuracy.
		I meant for this position to be more funny than to actually be used but 'whatever floats your boat.' If you decide to use this, make sure the gun isn't resting against anything 'important' if you know what i mean :-O. The Kurnul's Spudgun Palace
	www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/proxy/1549/positions.htm (395 words)

	Definitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A parcel of air in the atmosphere is considered absolutely stable when that parcel is displaced from its original position, but a net force causes it to return to its original position.
		A parcel in the atmosphere is considered dry absolutely unstable if the parcel is displaced from its original position and keeps moving away from its original position.
		In this case, the parcel moves away from its original position because it experiences a net force moving it in that direction.
	www.personal.psu.edu /mas582/482/definitions.htm (779 words)

	The Fifteen puzzle
		They would be found by performing an interchange; ie where one tile is moved to the position of another tile or the space, which in turn is moved somewhere else, possibly to the first tile's original position.
		The empty space is on a white position so this problem (including the problem of having the tiles on their sides) is unsolvable.
		It is worked out by looking at the position of each tile in the starting state and calculating the number of moves it would take to get to its home place if the space were adjacent to it, in the direction of home.
	www.math.ubc.ca /~cass/courses/m308-02b/projects/grant/fifteen.html (2216 words)

	RAWLS: DECISIONS IN THE ORIGINAL POSITION
		The 'thin' conception, which people in this Original Position use in judging between proposed rules, amounts to this: that people have purposes (though they don't know which purposes they have), and that certain sorts of things are useful in furthering a wide range of purposes.
		To every such position there corresponds a certain share of primary goods: not directly, but in the form of rights and duties, the exercise or performance of which adds to or subtracts from one's share of primary goods.
		Sometimes Rawls seems to be suggesting that people in the Original Position are drawing up definitions of all the social roles, and saying what their freedoms and entitlements are, and planning a society.
	www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/y64l14.html (2719 words)

	During an abdominoplasty the navel is moved from its original position and is usually placed in its new position by ...
		During an abdominoplasty the navel is moved from its original position and is usually placed in its new position by making a small opening in the skin flap.
		During an abdominoplasty the navel is moved from its original position.
		The new position is found by first marking the midline of abdomen.
	www.phudson.com /ABDO/umboposition.html (303 words)

	Notes 04: Original position (1)
		In Part III of JF, Rawls discusses the nature of the original position (OP) and the argument "from the original position" for his two principles of justice.
		In this situation, they would have equal basic liberties, their political liberties would have a fair value, they would enjoy fair equality of opportunity, and, because of the difference principle, their prospects for social and economic benefits would be as high as it is possible to make the prospects of the least advantaged.
		The two principles encourage the cooperative virtues of political life, especially by expressing an idea of reciprocity that is lacking in the principle of utility and by stressing the need to use arguments that appeal to reasons that all can freely accept.
	www.uwm.edu /People/sensat/courses/941rawls/notes04.html (2316 words)

	return to original position - Northcode Support
		The return to the original posistion should be excuted by a button in a child-movie, that refers to a frame in the main-movie.
		That position varies from screen to screen if it's positioned from the default left.
		What I was hoping for was a function where I could position it as 20 pixels from the right.
	www.northcode.com /forums/showthread.php?p=34147#post34147 (378 words)

	Autodesk - Discussion Groups - DWF of Presentation-Parts revert to original position
		These parts have been exploded in the ipn but when the dwf is created they are in the original position they were in before it was exploded.
		the dwf is created they are in the original position they were in before it
		Within the parts that you'll see, there are three of them that refuse to publish to dwf in the right position.
	discussion.autodesk.com /thread.jspa?threadID=467446 (563 words)

	Pole Position - AtariAge Forums
		Pole Position II had a selection of 4 tracks you could choose, Fuji, Test, Suzuka, and Seaside.
		It was not the Pole Position II coin-up!
		From: Seattle, WA Yeah that wasn't uncommon to play Pole Position 2 in a Pole Position cabinet since it was just an quick EPROM swap to convert from one to the other.
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=8989 (513 words)

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