It seems clear that the latter two uses of “can” express permissibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontic Logic] Reference

There are basic regulations that cover the permissibility of wiretaps, I assume.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference

What would Mill think about low-value speech and the permissibility of regulating it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference

There were no religious discussions about the permissibility of this architectural innovation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orthodox Judaism in the United States.] Reference

The lines of permissibility, to use Justice Frankfurter's phrase, "are more nice than obvious.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger I. Abrams: What's More American than a Home Run Hitter on Steroids?] Reference

After advancing these rules, Grotius considers the permissibility of a large number of actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugo Grotius] Reference

You obviously think this is still relevant to the issue of the moral permissibility of abortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong)] Reference

And precedents for the permissibility of lawlessness were established that today threaten our republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Word from Congressman Nadler's Predecessor] Reference

Moral philosophers debate the permissibility of abortion, the acceptability of the death penalty, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturalism] Reference

The physician is frequently consulted as to the permissibility or danger of marriages between near relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference

Another way to put this is that the “can” of permissibility is much more plausibly construed as the dual of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontic Logic] Reference

But hope and belief are not the same; and the standards for the permissibility of the latter are considerably higher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatic Arguments for Belief in God] Reference

Though Mill would presumably oppose moral legislation that prevents no harm, Lord Devlin (1965) defends its permissibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference

Anyone have any idea whether there are varying degrees of permissibility of contraception among the various evangelical groups?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Received Well By Evangelicals At Saddleback Church Event] Reference

Coetsee ruled that voting would not take place until he had had time to study the permissibility of a large number of last-minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

What do you think about the moral permissibility of aborting human fetuses / embryos / zygotes to save the lives of their mothers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong)] Reference

Socrates 'argument is an argument for the permissibility of a certain belief, based on the benefits of believing that certain belief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatic Arguments for Belief in God] Reference

Thomas Aquinas is credited with introducing the principle of double effect in his discussion of the permissibility of self-defense in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctrine of Double Effect] Reference

The issue of Palestinian resistance, in terms of its permissibility and types, is a highly inflammatory question for most Western observers.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Are Palestinians Allowed to Resist?] Reference

As a first line supervisor of interrogators, the leader of this elite team will have to make the hard calls on the permissibility of techniques.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Alexander: Interrogation Elite] Reference

If each citizen deserves to be respected as a person, then there is a powerful prima facie presumption against the permissibility of state coercion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Political Theory] Reference

Such a reading entails a difference with the categorical imperative insofar as the latter is a necessary and sufficient condition for permissibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Publicity] Reference

In contrast, the Stoics largely believed that the moral permissibility of suicide did not hinge on the moral character of the individual pondering it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suicide] Reference

This entry also briefly examines J.S. Mill's pragmatic argument for the permissibility of religious hope, and the pragmatic argument of James Beattie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatic Arguments for Belief in God] Reference

Any criticism of apostasy was met with the refrain from extremists that "there is a consensus of scholars on the permissibility of declaring apostasy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ali Eteraz: Dissent Is Now OK, But Only For Muslims] Reference

Although the Rehnquist Court reaffirmed the protection of abortion rights and the permissibility of affirmative action, it imposed greater limits on both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whatever Happened to the Lone Ranger?] Reference

Despite technical permissibility, he ruled, echoing earlier authorities, that women should not wear zizit because it betrayed arrogance (yoharah) on their part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poland: Early Modern (1500-1795).] Reference

Immediately on the passing of the tests, as to the permissibility of any explosive, the facts are reported to the manufacturer and to the various State mine inspectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference

"Article 239 specifically states that any president who so much as proposes the permissibility of reelection 'shall cease forthwith' in his duties," Mr. Estrada writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jules Siegel: Honduras Supreme Court: It Was "Common Knowledge" That Zelaya Was No Longer President UPDATE] Reference

We might say that the Mohists are applying a very basic, primitive conception of correctness, of which truth, obligation, permissibility, and other notions are species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mohism] Reference

What the critics of double effect emphasize is that the distinction between what is intentional and what is foreseen does not explain the permissibility of these exceptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctrine of Double Effect] Reference

Yet “ought” is routinely the reading given for deontic necessity in deontic logic (and in ethical theory), and then “permissibility” is routinely presented as its dual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontic Logic] Reference

For example, Alan Strudler argues that to deliberate about the permissibility of lying in terms of commensurable values is to misunderstand the wrong in lying (1998, 1561-1564).    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference