This view relies on the argument that the semantic function of a proper name is to tell us which object bears the name, and thus to identify some object.

# That such a position relies upon a discredited ontological argument that posits the foundational status of the community or state.

It is a speculative, non-rigorous argument, that relies on an analogy or in intuition, that allows to achieve a result or approximation to be checked after with more rigor, otherwise the results are of doubt.

The argument conditionally argues for the existence of God ; it relies on the premise that Jesus was a great moral teacher.

While most historical approaches rely on what an author's works contain, an argument from silence relies on what the book or document does not contain.

Behavioral subtyping is a stronger notion than typical subtyping of functions defined in type theory, which relies only on the contravariance of argument types and covariance of the return type.

Parfit's argument for this position relies on our intuitions regarding thought experiments such as teleportation, the fission and fusion of persons, gradual replacement of the matter in one's brain, gradual alteration of one's psychology, and so on.

The argument relies heavily on the principle of bivalence: the idea that any proposition is either true or false.

The role of information processing in consciousness has been criticised by John Searle who, in his Chinese room argument, states that he cannot find anything that could be recognised as conscious experience in a system that relies solely on motions of things from place to place.

" He makes use of extensive argument from analogy to accomplish his goal, and relies on several key points.

However, a closer reading of the text reveals that Locke relies on Biblical analysis at several key points in his argument, as does study of his spiritual life, mainly influenced by Deism, a belief in which God does not intervene in human affairs.

The argument relies on a deterministic system ( such as of the Stoics ).

When a debater relies on ethos, they are using their “ trustworthiness or credibility ” to persuade their audience into believing their specific argument on a particular topic ( Ramage 81 ).

All these different aspects play a major part on the effectiveness of a debater ’ s argument when the debater relies on the ethical appeal or ethos proof.

The argument is not one which relies upon the alleged separation of legislative and judicial functions under the Constitution of New South Wales.

* The argument relies solely on the emotional impact of the " horribles " ( an appeal to emotion ).

The argument, however, relies solely on reading of the lyrics, without other supporting evidence.

The concept for a " living constitution " therefore relies on an argument regarding the writing of the constitution that had no validity when the constitution was written.

" His first argument relies on the part of the Detainee Treatment Act ( DTA ) ( effective December 30, 2005 ) that states " o court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Many commentators, both at the time that Descartes wrote and since, have argued that this involves a circular argument, as he relies upon the principle of clarity and distinctness to argue for the existence of God, and then claims that God is the guarantor of his clear and distinct ideas.

Following Habermas, the argument relies on the following assumptions:

Noteworthy are topoi, places ( common and special topics ) from which an argument can be made ; three offices of rhetoric: invention, arrangement and style ; three proofs of rhetoric: ethos ( based on the speaker ’ s or writer ’ s character ), logos ( based on inductive or deductive reasoning ); and pathos ( relies on an audience ’ s sensibility to a particular subject ); three genres of rhetoric: forensic ( also known as judicial and concerned with determining truth or falsity of events that took place in the past ), deliberative ( also known as political and concerned with determining whether or not action should or should not be taken in the future ), and epideictic ( also known as ceremonial and concerned with praise and blame, values / ethics / virtue, and skill in the present ).

It was hardly possible to get any argument on the subject.

The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

The fact that there can not be any limit points of the set except in closed intervals follows from the argument used in Lemma 1, namely, that near any tangent point in the C-plane the curves C and Af are analytic, and therefore the difference between them must be a monotone function in some neighborhood on either side of the tangent point.

The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.

There is nonetheless considerable argument against the clause, softened though it be, on the grounds that Federal aid is so necessary to the public schools.

Even a hasty reader will easily find in it numerous blind spots, errors of fact and argument, important exclusions, areas of ignorance and prejudice, undue emphases on trivia, examples of broad positions supported by flimsy evidence, and the like.

More often, though, he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home.

She'd say she didn't feel good on Sunday, couldn't go to church -- there'd be a little argument, but she could be stubborn -- and when the old woman had gone, quick pack the things she'd need to take, all but the dress she'd wear Monday, and take the bag down to that place in the station where you could put things in a locker overnight, for a dime.

An argument with Orville Torrence Killpath was as frustrating and as futile as a cap pistol on a firing range.

The validity of this argument is subjective, depending on whether intrinsic rewards qualify as ' benefits '.

Some examples of reversible error would be erroneously instructing the jury on the law applicable to the case, permitting seriously improper argument by an attorney, admitting or excluding evidence improperly, acting outside the court's jurisdiction, injecting bias into the proceeding or appearing to do so, juror misconduct, etc.

Hence, such an appellate court will not consider an appellant's argument if it is based on a theory that is raised for the first time in the appeal.

) depend on the character used to denote its argument.

These theories were built on a coherent building of argument from assumed or accepted beginnings.

Paneloux's argument is based on the theology of St. Augustine, on which he is an expert, and it is accepted as irrefutable by many of the townspeople, including the magistrate, Othon.

He shows how a satisfying argument for the validity of experience can be based neither on demonstration ( since " it implies no contradiction that the course of nature may change ") nor experience ( since that would be a circular argument ).

German philosopher Immanuel Kant devised an argument from morality based on practical reason.

The argument hinges on the idea that a satisfactory naturalistic account of thought processes in terms of brain processes can be given for mathematical reasoning along with everything else.

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

Kiernan ’ s argument against an early dating based on a mixture of forms is long and involved, but he concludes that the mixture of forms points to a comparatively straightforward history of the written text as:

The argument is that biological weapons cannot be controlled: the weapon could backfire and harm the army on the offensive, perhaps having even worse effects than on the target.

This interpretation is supported with the argument that there is nowhere else in the book where Job express a wish for bodily resurrection, only for someone to intervene as an " umpire ", a " vindicator ", a " go ' el ", on his behalf as an impartial judge between himself and God in the present.