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Boojatta

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8. What definition are you relying upon?
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 11:44 AM
Mar 2012

A key part of the meaning of "partisan" (according to one dictionary that I consulted) is:

devoted to a cause or party


There's a big difference between a cause and a party because a party is a specific institution.

There are rules of methodology in science, and they usually aren't very controversial, but violations of scientific methodology often play a role in generating events reported in the media as being scientific controversies. Thus, it seems to be possible to be devoted to scientific methodology in general, with no need to specify any particular ideological flavor of scientific methodology.

In litigation, there's a distinction between the laws of procedure and whatever substantive area of law is involved in a particular courtroom proceeding.

I find it hard to believe that in politics there's nothing like those things that can go wrong. There's really nothing to consider when it comes to methodology or procedure when we are talking about political issues?

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