However, it is also stated that the process of halala cannot be used as a device to re-marry the former spouse. It must happen in the natural course of events.

Nat slipped his right hand into the pocket of his tan poplin windbreaker to reassure himself. The model 39 Smith & Wesson with its ultrasilent sound suppressor tugged at the bottom of the pocket. He’d carried this one since his days as a SEAL in Vietnam.

Rather than characterize scientific progress in terms of increasing truthlikeness, the proposal is to start with the pragmatic view that inquiry involves the elimination error, then to use this understanding of inquiry to characterize a local notion of approximate truth in terms of descriptive nesting relations between our current best physical theories and subsequent theories.

But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […], it won't impress the MTV generation.