Peter Leeson argues that " the case for anarchy derives its strength from empirical evidence, not theory.

The term suggests that its followers support protectionism and / or nationalism, which is not always the case-in fact, some supporters of anti-globalization are strong opponents of both nationalism and protectionism: for example, the No Border network argues for unrestricted migration and the abolition of all national border controls.

Although this culture has conventionally been identified with the migration of the Gothic ethnos into the region from the Northwest, Todd argues that its most important origin is Scytho-Sarmatian.

The party is keen to maintain its independent identity however, and argues that the need for a modern Liberal force in British politics has never been greater.

Frieser argues that the OKW had intended to avoid the decisive battle concepts of its predecessors and planned for a long all out war of attrition.

The CRTC argues that allowing free trade in television stations would overwhelm the smaller Canadian market, preventing it from upholding its responsibility to foster a national conversation.

When the human main character, Takeru, argues that humans also have the ability to reproduce and disperse, the higher existence says carbon too easily mingles with other elements and therefore it would be impossible for a carbon-based existence to have evolved on its own.

Kierkegaard argues that the value of the cogito is not its logical argument, but its psychological appeal: a thought must have something that exists to think the thought.

Citing Paul Ricoeur, McGinn argues that a distinctive characteristic of the Hebrew Bible is its " reinterpretation of myth on the basis of history ".

In his article " The Christian Mythology of Socialism ", Will Herberg argues that socialism inherits the structure of its ideology from the influence of Christian mythology upon western thought.

The DPP argues that its efforts to promote a Taiwanese national identity are merely an effort to normalize a Taiwanese identity repressed during years of authoritarian Kuomintang rule.

In his book Knowledge and its Limits, Williamson argues that the concept of knowledge cannot be analyzed into a set of other concepts — instead, it is sui generis.

Sylvia Tamale argues that this was done not only in defiance of the council's cooperation with the colonial authorities, but also in protest against its interference with women's decisions about their own rituals.

Instead, Winful argues that the group delay in tunneling is not actually the transit time for the pulse ( whose spatial length must be greater than the barrier length in order for its spectrum to be narrow enough to allow tunneling ), but is instead the lifetime of the energy stored in a standing wave which forms inside the barrier.

" He also argues for a 14 year time span for its construction.

" Sanders points out that the author would regard the gospel as theologically true as revealed spiritually even if its content is not historically accurate and argues that even historically plausible elements in John can hardly be taken as historical evidence, as they may well represent the author's intuition rather than historical recollection.

Norbert Walter, a former chief economist at Deutsche Bank, argues that " Germany owes its rapid economic advance after World War II to the system of the Social Market Economy, established by Ludwig Erhard.

In The Rise of Christianity, Rodney Stark argues that Christianity triumphed over paganism chiefly because it improved the lives of its adherents in various ways.

David P. Wright argues that the Jewish law used Hammurabi's collection as a model, imitating both its structure and content.

Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman argues that, although the term intellectual property is in wide use, it should be rejected altogether, because it " systematically distorts and confuses these issues, and its use was and is promoted by those who gain from this confusion.

Olivier Roy argues that " Sunni pan-Islamism underwent a remarkable shift in the second half of the 20th century " when the Muslim Brotherhood movement and focus on Islamistation of pan-Arabism was eclipsed by the Salafi movement with its emphasis on " sharia rather than the building of Islamic institutions ," and rejection of Shia Islam.

Spain claims the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, ceded to Britain in perpetuity in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht, and argues its case at the United Nations claiming its territorial integrity is affected.

John Darling's 1994 book Child-Centered Education and its Critics argues that the history of modern educational theory is a series of footnotes to Rousseau, a development he regards as bad.

First, he argues that John's account of Jesus ' ministry is always consistent, in that seasonal references always follow in the correct sequence, geographical distances are always consistent with indications of journey times, and references to external events always cohere with the internal chronology of Jesus ' ministry.

Oxford editor George Hibbard argues that, since the contemporary literature contains many allusions and references to Hamlet ( only Falstaff is mentioned more, from Shakespeare ), the play was surely performed with a frequency that the historical record misses.

He leaves references to the sexual organs as in the original: persistent usage of the words " lingam " and " yoni " to refer to them in older translations of the Kama Sutra is not the usage in the original Sanskrit ; he argues that " to a modern Hindu " lingam " and " yoni " mean specifically the sexual organs of the god Shiva and his wife, and using those words to refer to humans ' sexual organs would seem irreligious.

He argues that the Aztecs saw Ometeotl as a transcendental deity and that this accounts for the scarcity of documentary references to it, and why there is no evidence of an actual cult to Ometeotl among the Aztecs.

" Anita Shapira, Dean of Tel Aviv University, argues " thirty of references actually refer to writings by Shlaim and Morris, and fifteen others cite primary sources, and the rest refer to studies by major historians ...."

He compares the dragons at the base of the pillar to the dragons found eating away at the base of the Yggdrasil root and, pointing out that at the top of the pillar is carved tree foliage, argues that the Nordic / Viking association is plausible considering the many auxiliary references in the chapel to Celtic and Norse mythology.

Klausner distinguishes between core material in the accounts which he argues are not about Jesus and the references to " Yeshu " which he sees as additions spuriously associating the accounts with Jesus.

Louis Feldman argues that the writings of the 1st century Romano-Jewish historian Josephus ( 37 – c. 100 ) contain two references to Jesus.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of each other, and that the game's most direct antecedents are the English games of stoolball and " tut-ball ".

In the essay a blind English mathematician named Saunderson argues that since knowledge derives from the senses, then mathematics is the only form of knowledge that both he and a sighted person can agree about.

Christine Clay ( Pamela Carme ), a successful actress, argues passionately with her jealous ex-husband Guy ( George Curzon ), who makes particular reference to Robert Tisdall, a young man staying near her at her retreat on the English coast.

Joosten, however, while accepting that the carelessness of the English scribe is the most likely explanation for most such instances, nevertheless argues that a minority of such readings are due to translation errors in the Spanish text: as, for example, where the Italian text employs the conjunction pero, with an Italian meaning ' therefore '; while the Spanish text also reads pero, with a Spanish meaning ' however '; the Italian sense being the one demanded by the context.

Kennedy argues that by far the main reason was London's fear that a repeat of 1870 — when Prussia and the German states smashed France — would mean that Germany, with a powerful army and navy, would control the English Channel and northwest France.

Pauline Kiernan argues that Shakespeare changed English drama forever in Hamlet because he " showed how a character's language can often be saying several things at once, and contradictory meanings at that, to reflect fragmented thoughts and disturbed feelings.

Edward Trimnell, author of Why You Need a Foreign Language & How to Learn One ( 2005 ) argues that the international version of English is only adequate for communicating basic ideas.

Furthermore, Veal argues, the only explanation for the verbal parallels with the English translation of 1582 would be that the translator saw the play performed and echoed it in his translation, which he describes as " not an impossible theory but far from a plausible one.

The English sociologist Roy Wallis argues that a sect is characterized by “ epistemological authoritarianism ”: sects possess some authoritative locus for the legitimate attribution of heresy.

A recent critic, who is a legal as well as a literary scholar, argues that Old Mortality not only reflects the evolution of Scottish nationalism but also invokes a foundational moment in British sovereignty, namely, the Act of Habeas corpus ( also known as the Great Writ ), passed by the English Parliament in 1679.

Pinker argues that usage of singular they in English cannot be condemned on grammatical grounds, because it is probably better understood as a linguistic marker of a bound variable rather than as a pronoun with a referent.

In The Protestant Ethic, Weber argues that capitalism arose in Europe in part because of how the belief in predestination was interpreted by everyday English Puritans.

The author, often called in English the " Old Oligarch ", detests the democracy of Athens and the poorer classes, but he argues that the Periclean institutions are well designed for their deplorable purposes.

Hay ( 2000 ) argues that in the two decades after the defeat of Napoleon ( in 1815 ), Whig leaders welcomed the increasing political participation of the English middle classes.

John A. Makdisi argues that many concepts of English common law, including juries at least partly, derive from Islamic law.

Lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, the principal American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, argues that the terms hipster and hippie derive from the word hip, whose origins are unknown.

His article argues that " women were barred from the stage for their own sexual protection " and because " patriarchally acculturated audiences presumably found it intolerable to see English women — those who would represent mothers, wives, and daughters — in sexually compromising situations ".

" have entered the English language, Ruth Glancy argues the book's singular achievement is the powerful influence it has exerted upon its readers.

Woolrych argues that the notion that the period constitutes an " English Revolution " not only ignores the lack of significant social change contained within the period, but also ignores the long-term trends of the early modern period which extend beyond this narrow time-frame.

" In 1975, Bresson published Notes sur le cinématographe ( also published in English translation as Notes on the Cinematographer ), in which he argues for a unique sense of the term " cinematography.

William Holdsworth argues that it was his learning in Roman law and jurisprudence which allowed him to work so effectively ; because he had seen other legal systems at work, he " could both criticise the defects of English law and state its rules in a more orderly form than they had ever been stated before ".

Paola Pugliatti however argues that the case may be somewhere between Wilson and Taylor's argument ; " Shakespeare may not have been the first to bring English history before the audience of a public playhouse, but he was certainly the first to treat it in the manner of a mature historian rather than in the manner of a worshipper of historical, political and religious myth.

Written during the English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign.