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Stenka25 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
The exact meaning of “be to”
The passage below is from a book, “Justice” by Michael Sandel.
The virtue argument, by contrast, rests on a judgment that greed is a vice thatthe state should discourage. But who is to judge what is virtue and what is vice? Don’t citizens of pluralist societies disagree about such things?
In the passage the role and meaning of the underlined part, “is to” is ambiguous to me.
At first glance, the meaning of “is to” is “will.” But I am not 100% sure. It also seems possible that “is to” can have the same role and meaning of the sentence as follows : My duty is to support the policy.
Can you give me your opinions?
The virtue argument, by contrast, rests on a judgment that greed is a vice thatthe state should discourage. But who is to judge what is virtue and what is vice? Don’t citizens of pluralist societies disagree about such things?
In the passage the role and meaning of the underlined part, “is to” is ambiguous to me.
At first glance, the meaning of “is to” is “will.” But I am not 100% sure. It also seems possible that “is to” can have the same role and meaning of the sentence as follows : My duty is to support the policy.
Can you give me your opinions?
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” But I am not 100% sure. It also seems possible that “is to” can have the same role and meaning of the sentence as follows : My duty is to support the policy. That "is to" can mean "will", but "I thnk 'should' is a better translation.
- ” But I am not 100% sure.
- It also seems possible that “is to” can have the same role and meaning of the sentence as follows : My duty is to support the policy.
- That "is to" can mean "will", but "I thnk 'should' is a better translation.
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Stenka25At first glance, the meaning of “is to” is “will.” But I am not 100% sure. It also seems possible that “is to” can have the same role and meaning of the sentence as follows : My duty is to support the policy.That "is to" can mean "will", but "I thnk 'should' is a better translation.
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