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Varieties of Freedom and Their Distribution
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 77, Number 3, Fall 2010
- pp. 857-872
- 10.1353/sor.2010.0011
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The idea that there should be no limits on freedom of discussion receives passionate defenses from some of the most thoughtful and eloquent writers in our language, for example, Milton's evidential transparence condition and Mill's condition of equal benefit. My interest lies in exposing the consequences of this view for the derivative value of free discussion. I'm going to be particularly concerned with those instances in which these conditions are problematic.