Pro-Tanto

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Pro-Tanto

Describing partial fulfillment of an agreement, contract, or payment. The term is usually used in a legal sense; that is, a judge may order a pro-tanto payment.

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The second is the question about whether a democracy can rightly enforce other laws against persons who have been pro tanto excluded from democratic public discourse.

TAKING LEGITIMACY SERIOUSLY: A RETURN TO DEONTOLOGY

The statement that Person A values X seems to entail that A regards it as being pro tanto a good thing that X exists: not necessarily good from the point of view of the universe (if that phrase makes sense), but good, at least, from As own perspective.

The trouble with environmental values

For semi-compatibilists, the control required for moral responsibility constitutes having certain reasons, including pro tanto reasons, that causally determine our actions in an appropriate way.

Ishtiyaque Haji: Reason's Debt to Freedom: Normative Appraisals, Reasons, and Free Will

Weaker Locative Analysis: G is non-instrumentally good for X if and only if (i) G is pro tanto non-instrumentally good, (ii) G has properties that generate, or would generate, agent-relative reasons for X to desire G for its own sake, (iii) G is essentially related to X.

The locative analysis of good for formulated and defended

In sum, it seems that there is a strong pro tanto moral argument along the lines above for extensive free speech from a concern for overall welfare.

Global freedom of speech

If the renter or operator of the vehicle is uninsured or has less than $500,000 combined single limit coverage, the rental company is liable for up to an additional $500,000 in economic damages only, reduced pro tanto by the coverage of the vehicle operator.

Florida tort reform - 1999

In the early 1980s, before Internal Revenue Code [sections] 130, defendants and/or their insurers owned structured settlement annuities that only discharged their obligations pro tanto. Naturally, the control of the structured settlement process belonged to the defendant--the party at risk in the annuities.

Using plaintiff structured settlement specialists

In this respect, then, the term "pro tanto duty" is just as misleading as Ross's term.

Can Hooker's rule-consequentialist principle justify Ross's prima facie duties?

Reducing Nonsettling Parties' Liability Pro Tanto While Denying

The constitutional rights of nonsettling potentially liable responsible parties in the allocation of CERCLA liability