This is in response to “What happened,” by Ken Neubecker, on Dec. 20. This letter probably won’t settle the argument about how the United States gained the Southwestern states. No doubt that there was ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 111, No. 3 (Dec., 2002), pp. 251-275 (25 pages) An argument whose conclusion C is essential evidence for ...