He repeats Acheson's argument that the region lacks major urban centres, but adds that the Maritimes were also lacking the great rivers that led to the cheap and abundant hydro-electric power, key to Quebec and Ontario's urban and manufacturing development, that the extraction costs of Maritime resources were higher ( particularly in the case of Cape Breton coal ), and that the soils of the region were poorer and thus the agricultural sector weaker.

Nietzsche's argument that " God is dead " coincided with his attack on the " herd mentality " of Christianity, democracy and modern collectivism ; his concept of the übermensch ; and his advocacy of the will to power as a primordial instinct, were major influences upon many of the fin-de-siècle generation.

he use of " liberty " to describe the physical " ability to do what I want ", the power to satisfy our wishes, or the extent of the choice of alternatives open to us ... has been deliberately fostered as part of the socialist argument ... the notion of collective power over circumstances has been substituted for that of individual liberty.

) His daring use of power series enabled him to solve the famous Basel problem in 1735 ( he provided a more elaborate argument in 1741 ):

The central argument of council communism, in contrast to those of Social democracy and Leninist communism, is that workers ' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the natural and legitimate form of working class organisation and government power.

According to Kurzweil's argument, since growth in so many fields of science and technology depends upon computing power, these improvements translate into exponentially more frequent advances in non-computer sciences like nanotechnology, biotechnology, and materials science.

The amount of this deviation is known as its gamma value (), the argument for a power law function, which closely describes this behaviour.

The blackout was challenged in Miami-Dade District Court by attorney Ellis Rubin, and although the judge denied Rubin's request since he felt he did not have the power to overrule the NFL, he agreed with Rubin's argument that the blackout rule was unnecessary for the Super Bowl.

Literary critic James Wood calls him " cruel in punishment, evasive in argument, lusty for power, and repressive in politics ".

) presented an early teleological argument in De Natura Deorum ( On the Nature of the Gods ), arguing that divine power can be found in reason, which exists throughout nature.

Then, in 1992, Justice John Toohey ran out of patience with Alan Skyring and Patrick Cusack's repeated attempts to obtain a re-hearing on their argument that the Commonwealth did not have the power to issue paper money.

He was present at a meeting of " more than a hundred " iconodule clerics in 823 or 824, which ended in an argument between the Studites and the host, one Ioannikos, which may have represented a power struggle within the movement.

This argument is similar to the classic argument from evil in that it affirms inconsistency between the world that exists and the world that should exist if God had certain desires combined with the power to see them through.

A generalized form of the diagonal argument was used by Cantor to prove Cantor's theorem: for every set S the power set of S, i. e., the set of all subsets of S ( here written as P ( S )), is larger than S itself.

Paraphrasing Lévi-Strauss's argument, without this avoidance, the rivalries for power between age-sets, coupled with the close bonds of sharing between age mates, could lead to a sharing of daughters as spouses.

Congress rejected Johnson's argument that he had the war power to decide what to do, since the war was over.

Another argument came from James Madison, who believed Congress had not received the power to incorporate a bank, or any other governmental agency.

Historian and theorist Bryan Palmer argues that gender studies current reliance on post-structuralism — with its reification of discourse and avoidance of the structures of oppression and struggles of resistance — obscures the origins, meanings, and consequences of historical events and processes, and he seeks to counter the current gender studies with an argument for the necessity to analyze lived experience and the structures of subordination and power.

The familiar decimal notation for real numbers can also be viewed as an example of a power series, with integer coefficients, but with the argument x fixed at.

The Liberals made reducing the power of the Lords an important issue of the January 1910 general election. It was held that the 1911 Act clearly permits the procedures specified in the Parliament Acts to be used for " any Public Bill ", and this was sufficient to dispose of the argument that the 1911 Act could not be used to amend itself.

The Indians all know we cannot be a Match for them in the midst of an extensive woody Country ... from whence I infer that if we are determined to possess Our Posts, Trade & ca securely, it cannot be done for a Century by any other means than that of purchasing the favour of the numerous Indian inhabitants. With the proclamation, “ the British were trying to convince Native people that there was nothing to fear from the colonists, while at the same time trying to increase political and economic power relative to First Nations and other European powers .” However, the Royal Proclamation along with the subsequent Treaty of Niagara, provide for an argument that “ discredits the claims of the Crown to exercise sovereignty over First Nations ” and affirms Aboriginal “ powers of self-determination in, among other things, allocating lands .” Further so, the Royal Proclamation outlined a policy in which to protect and extinguish Aboriginal rights and in doing so, recognized these rights existed.

His argument was that Hitler wished to make Germany the strongest power in Europe but he did not want or plan war.

In such a case the defendant should serve as a clear example and not have to be tied to the issue by argument.

Because these methods are diverse and use data from such different sources, the problem of integrating them into a coherent argument has been a long-term issue for archaeoastronomers.

Because almost every argument, quotation, and issue raised for decades can be found here, the work is often termed ' the deist's Bible '.

Thus the argument also involved the issue of the proper relationship between church and state.

President Bill Clinton, the moderator in a town meeting discussing the topic " Race In America ", in response to a participant argument that the issue was not affirmative action but " racial preferences " asked the participant a loaded question: " Do you favor the United States Army abolishing the affirmative-action program that produced Colin Powell?

Ignoratio elenchi, also known as irrelevant conclusion, irrelevant thesis or fallacy of distraction, is the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may in itself be valid, but does not address the issue in question.

This is in contrast with the methods found in analytic philosophy, whereby some say a philosopher will sometimes begin by appealing to his or her intuitions on an issue and then form an argument with those intuitions as premises.

This is a separate and more fundamental issue than the regress argument found in discussions on justification of knowledge.

The court rejected this argument ( Scopes v. State, 154 Tenn. 105, 1927 ), holding that the determination of what laws cherished science was an issue for the legislature, not the judiciary:

claim that mathematics does not address the central point in Zeno's argument, and that solving the mathematical issues does not solve every issue the paradoxes raise.

The issue being that Aristotle, through resolving Parmenides ' Third Man argument against Plato's forms and ontology created a second philosophical school of thought.

The argument stems from an inside joke between Foley and McDonald, who debated this issue in real life.

In this sense then, the Induction has a vital role to play in the controversy of the play, especially as it relates to misogyny, as, if Oliver's argument is accepted, it serves to undercut any charges of misogyny before they can even be formulated – the play is a farce, it is not to be taken seriously by the audience, so questions of seriousness regarding the play within the play simply aren't an issue.

Although this stance was solid Orthodox theology, Palamas took issue with Barlaam's argument in support of it.

The issue came to a head in 1932 when Weadick and Richardson engaged in a loud argument over the situation, ending with Weadick's threat to quit entirely.

That is, the Court had to review all properly presented appeals on the merits, hear oral argument, and issue decisions.

" By and large, palliative care have done pretty well out of the argument over the euthanasia issue, because they are the ones that have argued that they just need better funding and then no one will ever want to die – that ’ s a lie.

Shoot, the only real issue is whether the GOAT of All Time argument is a debate at all, given that posting those two Slams puts Laver in a league of his own.

In this Essay, he takes issue with those who rely on moral feeling rather than reasoned argument to justify their beliefs.

This point and the next one strike at the heart of the Greek's issue with the argument about the Ship of Theseus.

On February 26, 2007, U. S. District Judge Edward Korman rejected this argument and held that the city could not cap damages, writing, " The city's failure to provide a second pilot or otherwise adopt a reasonable practice that addresses the issue of pilot incapacitation was plainly a substantial factor in causing the disaster.