exceptionless
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- adjective
- /ɪkˈsɛpʃənləs/
- I would suggest that the problems surrounding the issues of intrinsic evil and absolute or exceptionless norms can be understood in relation to this distinction between premoral and genuinely moral norms.
- exceptionless norm
Examples
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Is the norm a rule of thumb or an exceptionless norm?
Academic text (2003) -
This focus found echoes in both Catholic and Protestant moral discussions about whether there could be exceptionless moral rules.
Academic text (2009) -
However, and this is the point which I think you have not seen, the law, if true, is true for all times and places; in other words, it is 'an exceptionless regularity.'
Blog text (12) -
Our view is that those goods can be upheld even if the norm prohibiting remarriage after a first consummated sacramental marriage is no longer treated as exceptionless.
Academic text (2004) -
Our argument is that the formulation of that demand as an exceptionless norm for all consummated, sacramental marriages is unrealistic, incoherent, and injurious.
Academic text (2004) -
In ethical debates, many philosophers argue for exceptionless rules that apply to every situation without fail.
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The students learned that the guidelines provided were meant to be exceptionless, leaving no room for special cases.
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She emphasized that the principles outlined in the code of conduct were exceptionless, and everyone had to adhere to them.
Antonyms
- Specialized
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4.8
A child whose thinking or physical ability is much different from most children
How Universal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Exceptionless combines exception (like the common word 'except', meaning 'a case left out') and -less ('without'), so it literally means 'without exceptions'. That is why something exceptionless applies in every case and has no special rules or exceptions.