This is the only valid, and extenuating, argument that may be advanced in defense of the reprehensible attitude of the common wine waiter.

Philosopher G. H. R. Parkinson notes a common objection to Kant's argument: that what ought to be done does not necessarily entail that it is possible.

However, in CL it is necessary to explicitly refer to the function namespace when passing a function as an argument — which is also a common occurrence, as in the example above.

The versions sampled in the following sections are representative of the most common derivations of the argument.

Note that this brain-in-a-vat argument conflates cyberspace with reality, while the more common descriptions of cyberspace contrast it with the " real world ".

" A common example, as shown below, is an argument based on tax protestor claims.

He famously put the point into dramatic relief with his 1939 essay " Proof of an External World ", in which he gave a common sense argument against scepticism by raising his right hand and saying " Here is one hand ," and then raising his left and saying " And here is another ," then concluding that there are at least two external objects in the world, and therefore that he knows ( by this argument ) that an external world exists.

Not surprisingly, not everyone inclined to sceptical doubts found Moore's method of argument entirely convincing ; Moore, however, defends his argument on the grounds that sceptical arguments seem invariably to require an appeal to " philosophical intuitions " that we have considerably less reason to accept than we have for the common sense claims that they supposedly refute.

Robert E. Kennedy explains however that this common argument of the mass emigration from Ireland being a " flight from famine " is not entirely correct.

In addition, the < operator returns its second argument if it succeeds, allowing things like < code > if a < b < c </ code >, a common type of comparison that in most languages must be written as a disjunction of two inequalities like < code > if a < b && b < c </ code >.

" A common argument against noise pollution laws involves a false choice.

A common way out of this argument is not to answer the question ( e. g. with a simple ' yes ' or ' no '), but to challenge the assumption behind the question.

* Fragmentation of proprietary interests: Justice Toohey made the argument that common law possessory title could form the basis for native title claims by indigenous Australians.

This argument is less relevant on an operating system which uses a common menu bar.

For example, a common realist argument, arguably found in Plato, is that universals are required for certain general words to have meaning and for the sentences in which they occur to be true or false.

A common summary of his argument is that meaning is use — words are not defined by reference to the objects they designate, nor by the mental representations one might associate with them, but by how they are used.

One common interpretation of the argument is that while one may have direct or privileged access to one's current mental states, there is no such infallible access to identifying previous mental states that one had in the past.

The common argument is that jizya was a fee in exchange for the dhimma ( permission to practice one's faith, enjoy communal autonomy, and to be entitled to Muslim protection from outside aggression ).

This matter is however very hard to distinguish from a cultural bias, which is a common argument for " ordinary " media too.

It is common to use this first type of argument with propositions such as the one above, concerning the non-existence of some mathematical object.

Their principal argument was that copyright had not been created by the Statute of Anne ; it existed beforehand, in the common law, and was perpetual.

Concerns that defamation under common law might be incompatible with the new republican form of government caused early American courts to struggle between William Blackstone's argument that the punishment of " dangerous or offensive writings ... necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty " and the argument that the need for a free press guaranteed by the Constitution outweighed the fear of what might be written.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

While other conditions might be even more effective in bringing about a change from immobility to mobility in Kohnstamm reactivity, it is our hypothesis that all such conditions would have as a common factor the capacity to induce an attitude in the subject which enabled him to divorce himself temporarily from feelings of responsibility for his behavior.

By ancient common law it might be required of all persons above the age of 12, and it was repeatedly used as a test for the disaffected.

By the late 5th century BC, philosophers might separate Aphrodite into two separate goddesses, not individuated in cult: Aphrodite Ourania, born from the sea foam after Cronus castrated Uranus, and Aphrodite Pandemos, the common Aphrodite " of all the folk ," born from Zeus and Dione.

Unheard of these days, but common during the early 20th Century in North America, a " newspaper decision ( NWS )" might be made after a no decision bout had ended.

While many scientific experts might agree on a common definition of the term " coast ", the delineation of the extents of a coast differ according to jurisdiction, with many scientific and government authorities in various countries differing for economic and social policy reasons.

) In reliance on this assumption, modern statutes often leave a number of terms and fine distinctions unstated — for example, a statute might be very brief, leaving the precise definition of terms unstated, under the assumption that these fine distinctions will be inherited from pre-existing common law.

For example, a payroll file might contain information concerning all the employees in a company and their payroll details ; each record in the payroll file concerns just one employee, and all the records have the common trait of being related to payroll — this is very similar to placing all payroll information into a specific filing cabinet in an office that does not have a computer.

For example, a court might certify a case for class treatment where a number of individual bond-holders sue to determine whether they may convert their bonds to common stock.

This still might not sound all that obvious, but in fact it is a common problem faced by almost all OO languages ; not everything fits into a class construct, many problems apply to all objects in the system and there's no natural way to handle this.

For centuries, many philosophers and scientists supposed that extrasolar planets existed, but there was no way of knowing how common they were or how similar they might be to the planets of the Solar System.

It has nothing in common with the letter except its form: apart from that one might venture the paradox that the epistle is the opposite of a real letter.

Another common house rule is that the bottom card of the deck is never given as a replacement, to avoid the possibility of someone who might have seen it during the deal using that information.

The former estates had accepted and supported the rise of the nonpolitical value of the common man in society, but had tried to limit the working class ’ s access to true political might.

In the intermediate view, the Italic languages are one of the ten or eleven major subgroups of the Indo-European language family and might therefore have had an ancestor, common Italic or proto-Italic, from which its daughter languages descend.

He created a storm in the British press soon after his arrival by suggesting that the two countries might find common ground opposing communism's spread: The Führer is convinced that there is only one real danger to Europe and to the British Empire as well, and that is the spreading further of communism, this most terrible of all diseases-terrible because people generally seem to realize its danger only when it is too late.

Something might be a kludge if it fails in corner cases, but this is a less common sense as such situations are not expected to come up in typical usage.

An example of this might be binary floating point arithmetic, which is a common requirement in many systems.

Sub-letting of villein holdings was common, and labour on the demesne might be commuted into an additional money payment, as happened increasingly from the 13th century.

According to William Blackstone, however, natural law might be useful in determining the content of the common law and in deciding cases of equity, but was not itself identical with the laws of England.

Kenneth Waltz has argued that nuclear weapons have helped keep an uneasy peace, and further nuclear weapon proliferation might even help avoid the large scale conventional wars that were so common prior to their invention at the end of World War II.

Even on very specialized forums and lists off topic posting is not necessarily frowned upon, but a common netiquette convention is to mark a new off-topic posting or email by beginning it with " OT "-for example in a forum discussing the Linux operating system someone might post: " OT: Wow, did you feel that earthquake?

In Plutarch, following as he does the anti-democratic line common in elite sources, the fact that people might be recalled early appears to be another example of the inconsistency of majoritarianism that was characteristic of Athenian democracy.

This concept, which shares much in common with phenomenology, Tolkien calls " recovery ," in the sense that one's unquestioned assumptions might be recovered and changed by an outside perspective.