well, this hints at much deeper subtleties than just naming governments. how are we to delineate what counts? if we say that a temporary decline in government tyranny doesn’t count then the original assertion can be made true by choosing long enough time periods.
thus we are knee deep in the legitimacy problem: what successions can be counted as a continuation of the previous regime and which are not?
well, this hints at much deeper subtleties than just naming governments. how are we to delineate what counts? if we say that a temporary decline in government tyranny doesn’t count then the original assertion can be made true by choosing long enough time periods.
thus we are knee deep in the legitimacy problem: what successions can be counted as a continuation of the previous regime and which are not?