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Liberal, city (1990 pop. 16,573), seat of Seward co., SW Kans.; founded 1888, inc. 1945. It is the trade center for a grazing and farm area. Oil and natural gas are extracted, and helium is processed in the city. Meatpacking and sand and gravel are also important to the economy. The traditional International Pancake Race between the housewives of Liberal and Olney, England, is held annually on Shrove Tuesday.
liberal
1. relating to or having social and political views that favour progress and reform
2. relating to or having policies or views advocating individual freedom
3. of or relating to an education that aims to develop general cultural interests and intellectual ability


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42) On this view, the truth of a proposition is determined not by its ability to withstand criticism, as would be the case in the liberalisms of Mill (43) or Kant, (44) bur by the number of adherents that it amasses in the marketplace of ideas.
What is the purpose of freedom of expression? by Weinrib, Jacob / University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review
There is thus a lively debate not over whether those liberalisms can have a theological justification at all, but also which liberalism has the best theological justification.
Tolerance & Truth by Sargent, Mark A. / Commonweal
See Loren Lomasky, Liberty and Welfare Goods: Reflections on Clashing Liberalisms, in RIGHTS, EQUALITY, AND LIBERTY.
Market rights and the rule of law: a case for procedural ... by Pincione, Guido / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
 
 
 
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