* the writings of David Hume and Immanuel Kant ( and later, Charles Darwin ), which increased doubt about the first cause argument and the argument from design, turning many ( though not all ) potential deists towards atheism instead

The argument is that if the money supply is constant, increases in the cost of a good or service will decrease the money available for other goods and services, and therefore the price of some those goods will fall and offset the rise in price of those goods whose prices have increased.

Graham White argues, partially on the basis of Sraffianism, that the policy of increased labor market flexibility, including the reduction of minimum wages, does not have an " intellectually coherent " argument in economic theory.

After 1871 Masurians who expressed sympathy for Poland were deemed " national traitors " by German nationalists ( this increased especially after 1918 ) According to Stefan Berger after 1871 the Masurians in the German Empire were seen in a view that while acknowledging their " objective " Polishness ( in terms of culture and language ) they felt " subjectively " German and thus should be tightly integrated into German nation-state ; to Berger this argument went directly against the German nationalist demands in Alsace where Alsatians were declared German despite their " subjective " choice.

Graham White argues, partially on the basis of Sraffianism, that the policy of increased labor market flexibility, including the reduction of minimum wages, does not have an " intellectually coherent " argument in economic theory.

Although Duthie's argument wasn't fully accepted at the time, it has been gaining increased support in the late twentieth century.

There was a good argument for supersonic speeds on medium and long-range flights at least, where the increased speed and potential good economy once supersonic would offset the tremendous amount of fuel needed to overcome the wave drag.

A similar argument is that deficit spending today will require increased taxation in the future, thus burdening future generations – see generational accounting for discussion.

The same argument would imply that periods of increased solar radiation contributed to the Medieval Warm Period, when Greenland's icy coastal areas thawed enough to permit farming and colonisation.

Into the 2000s, the school came under criticism for keeping the entirety of the increasingly taxed Norval property while so little of it was actually used ; this argument is gained increased credence in light of the consistent yearly tuition hikes and mounting legal costs.

Easterly reproached The End of Poverty in his review for The Washington Post, and Easterly's 2006 book White Man's Burden is a rebuttal of Sachs's argument that poor countries are stuck in a " poverty trap " from which there is no escape except by massively scaled-up foreign aid, though Sachs himself has clearly emphasized the need for a complex, multifaceted, clinical and unique approach to economic development, of which increased and responsible foreign aid is nearly always a necessary but insufficient part.

The principal argument in favour of a new funding system is that British universities are currently critically underfunded, and an increased level of fees will result in a cash injection and prevent them collapsing.

A key player on this side of the argument is the Russell Group of Universities, who have argued that they should be able to charge much increased fees in order to differentiate themselves from smaller universities.

A study of working mothers and early child development was influential in making the argument for increased maternity leave.

Refinements in the tracking systems that measure approval-ratings and audience-size increased the cultural incentive for producers to write as simply and as simplistically possible by diminishing the intellectual complexity of the argument presented in the programme, usually at the expense of factual accuracy, logic, and complexity.

While wine consumption has increased, this has not replaced consumption of other alcoholic beverages, negating the " Europeanization " argument.

As technology has advanced, and concerns about the future of humanity on Earth have increased, the argument that space colonization is an achievable and worthwhile goal has gained momentum.

With regard to the last argument, proponents note that nobody has studied the effects of increased efficiency in plants in such a way to make this determination possible.

While working on the olefins he noticed that a change takes place in the density of the vapor of amylene hydrochloride, hydrobromide, & c, as the temperature is increased, and in the gradual passage from a gas of approximately normal density to one of half-normal density he saw a powerful argument in favor of the view that abnormal vapor densities, such as are exhibited by sal-ammoniac or phosphorus pentachloride.

Tensions increased towards the end of the season when wide receivers coach and Shanahan loyalist Nick Nicolau got into a heated argument with assistant coach Art Shell ( a Davis loyalist ) in which Nicolau reportedly accused Shell of only having a job by virtue of his friendship with Davis.

Furthermore, the argument is based on crystallized g. If instead looking at fluid g, then the subtests with the highest g-loading are the ones which have increased the most due to the Flynn effect.

Tobin's critics in Canada noted that he was likely using his department as a political prop to shore up support during a time of increased social unrest in the region, yet in the winter of 1995, Tobin directed DFO to establish a legal argument which could be made for the seizure of a foreign vessel in international waters using the premise of conservation.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s the argument increased, and the Equity Save London's Theatre Committee organised high profile demonstrations ( campaigners included John Gielgud, Edward Woodward, Diana Rigg, Robert Morley and Prunella Scales ) as they feared that the theatre would still be lost.

A final argument is the Zoo hypothesis, which states that superintelligent extraterrestrial life exists and does not contact life on Earth to allow for its natural evolution and development.

By a minimization of free energy argument, the relation that predicted the smaller new contact angle is the state most likely to exist.

" However, five experts testified on behalf of Thomas that AIDS is not transmitted through casual contact, and the court affirmed the " solid science " ( as Mr. Huber called it ) and rejected Dr. Armentrout's argument.

She was considered a nag, and had a habit of retiring in bad temper to a cloister after an argument, cutting off all contact with the outside world until suddenly making a reappearance at court as if her absence had never occurred.

An apparently less politicised argument is that in specific professions ( teaching ), a ban on " veils " ( niqab ) is justified, since face-to-face communication and eye contact is required.

Therefore, there exists an argument for the deprecation of the mailto URI in favor of other means of providing contact facilities, such as online forms.

While phonesthemes have mostly been identified in the onsets of words and syllables, they can have other forms. There has been some argument that sequences like "- ash " and "- ack " in English also serve as phonesthemes, due to their patterning in words that denote forceful, destructive contact (" smash ", " crash ", " bash ", etc.

In response to the argument that homoeroticism was edited out, some traditionalists who subscribe to the Documentary Hypothesis note the significance of the lack of censoring of the descriptions at issue, in spite of the Levitical injunctions against homoerotic contact.

The submitted supporting argument included claims that AIDS could be transmitted by insects, respiratory means and casual contact.

Regarding Ziherl's argument that the statute served valid public interests, the court stated that in Lawrence, the U. S. Supreme Court had ruled that the Texas sodomy statute furthered " no legitimate state interest " that could justify infringing the right to intimate contact.

This occurred a year before the arrival of Shanti and the apprentice, Zakary had lost contact with Barzahl since the argument.

In February 1982, after heavy drinking caused by a cooling-off period imposed by the French, who were fearful of his discovery through too much contact, Vetrov stabbed his mistress during an argument in his car ( she survived ).

The Quarrel is a touching film that trails writer Chaim and his friend from youth, Rabbi Hersh, during their journey in a scenic park in Montreal as they return to an old argument regarding God and ethics ; one that has newfound importance following the Holocaust that occurred since their last contact.

" Picking up this line of argument and declaring " a great departure from the principles of free contract ," Gladstone created an Irish Land Court with complete control over rents and other landlord-tenant issues.

The Polish position is based on the argument that Poland owns a longer coast line than the Danish island of Bornholm.

One line of argument in favor of externalism begins with the observation that if what justified our beliefs failed to eliminate significantly the risk of error, then it does not seem that knowledge would be attainable as it would appear that when our beliefs did happen to be correct, this would really be a matter of good fortune.

His main line of argument was that the tremendous displacements and changes he was seeing did not happen in a short period of time by means of catastrophe, but that processes still happening on the Earth in the present day had caused them.

In Plato's dialogue Euthydemus, Socrates describes the labyrinthine line of a logical argument:

Latter-day Saint apologists have reasoned that this line of argument commits the logical error of appeal to probability ; they also point out that it is unlikely that Smith had access to material which would have referred to the then-small settlement of Moroni.

It may sometimes be difficult to determine the actual line of argument some Presocratics used in supporting their particular views.

This line of argument has been articulated further in recent years by Canadian philosopher John McMurtry within the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems ( http :// www. eolss. net ) published by UNESCO.

One way to rigorously define the delta function is as a measure, which accepts as an argument a subset A of the real line R, and returns δ ( A )

This line of argument partly blames Wilson for the civil unrest of the late 1970s ( during Britain's Winter of Discontent ), and for the electoral success of the Conservative party and its ensuing 18-year rule.

Hence, this line of argument goes, the objectively dominant effect would be the moral and economic damage due to the massive fear and panic such an incident would spur.

I think my paintings are critically transformed, but it would be difficult to prove it by any rational line of argument ".

She suggests that the line, " He calls his Kate and she must come and kiss him " references The Shrew, as A Shrew contains no kissing scenes, which supports her argument for a date of composition in late 1591 / early 1592.

He then, repeating the line of argument the English delegation had made two years previously, proposed a military alliance against Spain, promising to repeal the Navigation Act in return for Dutch assistance in the conquest of Spanish America.

Edward III of England argued, however, that although the Salic law should forbid inheritance by a woman, it did not forbid inheritance through a female line – under this argument, Edward should have inherited the throne, and formed the basis of his claim during the ensuing Hundred Years War ( 1337 – 1453 ).

The argument over the quality of Fitzgerald ’ s translation of the Rubaiyat has, according to Dougan, diverted attention from a fuller understanding of the deeply esoteric message contained in Omar ’ s actual material – " Every line of the Rubaiyat has more meaning than almost anything you could read in Sufi literature ".

Much of Condillac's work reflected mainstream Physiocrats, particularly his analysis of the structure of taxation and proposals for the revival of the economy, but he also proposed another line of argument, claiming that producers work to obtain utility.

( This general line of argument reoccurs much later in the philosophy of Nietzsche.

It was subsequently realised that the argument over whether the beams would bend round the earth or not was entirely academic as the transmitters were, more or less, in the line of sight to a bomber flying at high altitude.

Some of the engineers felt that going on strike would actually work against the cause, as lack of maintenance below ground could allow geological conditions to deteriorate to a state that would prevent the pit from reopening-defeating the whole goal of opposing closures ; however, hard-line strikers were not always sympathetic to this line of argument.

A related line of evangelical argument addresses the notion that Jesus Christ was a great philosopher and ethicist, but not God.

This line of argument is discussed in more detail at Fascism and ideology.

The argument is that a softmodem isn't a real modem at all, but rather a simple electrical interface between computer and phone line, limiting itself to very basic functions such as voltage / current adaptation and functioning essentially as a DAC / ADC, much like a sound card which handles pure PCM and analog signals from and to the telephone line, while the host's CPU does the actual job of synthesizing or analyzing all necessary waveforms ( carrier, dialing tones ) and applying all necessary DSP techniques ( FSK, QAM, PSK etc.