... explanatory andsubversive. Williams’ is explanatory and vindicatory, as was mine. Hume’sstate-of-nature doctrine about justice was certainly vindicatory; the extentto which it was also intended to be ... ofprocedures employed for a range of purposes. They can be subversive, orvindicatory, of the doctrines or practices whose origins (factual, imaginary,and conjectural) they claim to describe. ... about nations thatare at first successful and then suffer military reverses) we have historicaldocumentation; for other parts it is just that we know enough about humanlife to know that that...