Special case

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Habermas, e.g., put forward that the legal discourse should not be understood as a special case of the moral discourse because in law next to moral reasons there are also ethical and pragmatic reasons to play a legitimate part (J. Habermas, Between Facts and Norms, 230 ff.).

This is a special case of equation 4.9.10 with h(x)#61;K#95;v(#92;betax).

Clearly, the Pythagorean theorem is a special case of the more general theorem, arrived at by letting r = 1.

Special-casing the 100 most common words in English might speed things up.

If these programs work as well as they can even without going through QuickDraw, what's the penalty for going around the system and special casing?

Other languages have since special-cased that kind of computation with, for example, generators in Python or something where you can yield values.