An argument for the value of art, used in the fictional work ' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ', proceeds that, if some external force presenting imminent destruction of Earth asked humanity what it's value was -- what should humanity's response be?

Part of the reason that Hayek stressed the knowledge problem was also because he was mainly concerned with debating the proposal for Market Socialism and the Lange Model by Oskar R. Lange ( 1938 ) and Hayek's student Abba Lerner ( 1934, 1937, 1938 ), which was developed in response to the calculation argument.

Flame trolling is the posting of a provocative or offensive message, known as " flamebait ", to a public Internet discussion group, such as a forum, newsgroup or mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response ( a " flame ") or argument over a topic the poster often has no real interest in.

One way to use this in a response to skepticism is to apply the same strategy to the terms used in a skeptical argument in the following way ( DeRose, 1999 ):

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?

In response to those opposing the independence of Biafra, the solicitor for the indigenous people of Biafra made a strong argument in both national and international law asserting that what Nigeria got after the Biafra War of Independence was a military conquest and not a political victory.

Perhaps the most important criticism of this view is that, even granting its success against the argument from evil, it does nothing to undermine an ' argument from the absence of goodness ' which may be pushed instead, and so the response is only superficially successful.

A promising response then is to point out that the assertion " evil exists " implies an ethical standard against which moral value is determined, and then to argue that this standard implies the existence of God ( see argument from morality.

The argument can be seen as a response to the suggestion in Plato's Theaetetus that knowledge is justified true belief.

One response to this argument is that it equivocates on the notions of abilities and necessities, or that the free will evoked to make any given choice is really an illusion and the choice had been made all along, oblivious to its " decider ".

In response to questions about " subjective immortality ", Max Tegmark made some brief comments: He acknowledged the argument that " everyone will be immortal " should follow if a survivor outcome is possible for all life-threatening events.

However, they maintain that their general argument remains intact, that their predictions were merely illustrative, that their and others ' warnings caused preventive action, or that many of their predictions may yet come true ( see Ehrlich's response below ).

In 2008, the philosopher Maxine Sheets-Johnstone published The Roots of Morality ( Pennsylvania State University Press ), which contains an analysis of Rank's argument that " immortality ideologies " are an abiding human response to the painful riddle of death.

The solipsist might hold in response that further argument is meaningless.

The early Church Father and theologian Origen ( c. 182 – 251 ) produced a learned argument about cubits, in response to a critic who doubted that the ark could contain all the animals in the world.

In response to Thrasher's argument that the marches could polarize gender relations and that the comic had a different message than perceived, Gretchen Hess said that the intent of the strip was not easily discernible and that the effect of the strip should be considered in addition to the intent.

In his original paper, Hacking takes as his main example a certain response to the argument from design.

However, the common response to the argument that corporations exploit poor laborers by lowering working standards, wages, etc.

* Finally, in response to Taylor's argument that Hitler had no programme because his foreign policy seemed to operate in a haphazard and slapdash way, Taylor's critics such as Trevor-Roper worked out the formula by which Hitler held " consistent aims " but sought to achieve via " flexible methods ".

The main thrust of critics ' argument is that the appropriate response to overpopulation is not to recruit hundreds of thousands of additional settlers, and the answer to overdevelopment in the north is not to build up the last open spaces in the second most-densely crowded country in the developed world ; rather, what is required is an inclusive plan for the green vitalization of existing population centers in the Negev, investment in long-awaited service-provision in Bedouin villages, clean-up of its many toxic industries ( such as Ramat Hovav ), and the development of a viable economic plan focusing on creating job options for the unemployed rather than promoting an influx of new immigrants and creating jobs for them.

Later Islamic scholars viewed this work as a response to Avicenna's metaphysical argument on spiritual resurrection ( as opposed to bodily resurrection ), which was earlier criticized by al-Ghazali.

David Lewis ' response to this argument, now known as the ability argument, is that what Mary really came to know was simply the ability to recognize and identify color sensations to which she had previously not been exposed.

A response to this argument is that groups also do not feel hunger, but can act as a means for individuals to satisfy their hunger-this being the main motive for the corporation and collective economic effort, back to earliest systems of irrigation.

* Article 15 calls for member states to be prepared for emergency response actions in the area.

* On 7 July 2004, In response to the Supreme Court ruling, the Pentagon announced that cases would be reviewed by military tribunals, in compliance with Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention.

The official response cited Article 53 of the 1982 Constitution, which states that citizens must abide by the law and observe labor discipline and public order.

The Committee assesses complaints on a closed basis in accordance with Article Five of the First Optional Protocol and for that reason only the original written complaint, the response from the State and the reply by the author will be considered.

In response Turkey calls upon Article 4 of the NATO Treaty, which stipulates that member states must deliberate when asked to do so by another member state if it feels threatened.

*" Border control " means the activity carried out at a border, [...] in response exclusively to an intention to cross or the act of crossing that border, regardless of any other consideration, consisting of border checks and border surveillance ( Article 2 sec.

Mrs. Eddy's response dated February 12, 1904, was a letter including her proposed changes to the By-laws of her Church known as the Manual of The Mother Church, which, with a few changes, would allow for the establishing what today are known as Christian Science College Organizations ( in Article XXII Section 8 ).

* Article in Thurgauer Zeitung showing counter-statement by " Simon Moon's " lawyers in response to the police press release.

In 1949 the United States and Canada joined the alliance and its mutual defence agreements through the North Atlantic Treaty with its Article 5 mutual defence clause which differed from the Brussels Treaty as it did not necessarily include military response.

The Capitol Police are an analog to the special police forces that were set up in response to Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, which forbade any military force, and political pressure from the United States to be prepared to fight the Communists.

In response, Eu, along with other barristers including Margaret Ng and Ronny Tong, formed the Basic Law Article 45 Concern Group that advocated fully democratic processes in the form of universal suffrage in both elections.

In response to communist-era collective farming, Article 23 established the family farm as the basis of the agricultural economy.

At least four amendments ( the Seventeenth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, and Twenty-Fifth Amendments ) have been identified as being proposed by Congress at least partly in response to the threat of an Article V convention.

Enthusiasm for the amendment subsided in response to fears that an Article V convention could not be limited to a single subject and because Congress passed the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, which required that the budget be balanced by 1991 ( but that Act was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1986 ).

It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907.

However, on 23 October, Boqor Osman sent an angry response to the Governor defying his order.

As a response to Meroe's incursions into Upper Egypt, a Roman army moved south and razed Napata in 23 BC.

* February 23 – In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly 2 months early in the United States.

In response to a Four Corners program aired on 21 February 1994, on 23 February 1994, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Gareth Evans announced a ' root and branch ' review of ASIS.

Encouraged by the response there — the lines stretched around the block for months — on June 23 the studio screened the film at the Sutton Theater in New York.

For example, the JBL 4688 TCB Subwoofer System, a now-discontinued system which was designed for movie theaters, had a frequency response of 23 – 350 Hz when measured within a 10-decibel boundary ( 0 dB to-10 dB ) and a narrower frequency response of 28 – 120 Hz when measured within a six-decibel boundary (± 3 dB ).

In response to the growing use of the term, on 23 December 2008 Psion Teklogix sent cease and desist letters to various parties including enthusiast website ( s ) demanding they no longer use the term " netbook ".

" 23 Skidoo, like Clock DVA, merged industrial music with African-American dance music, but also performed a response to world music.

More than 23, 000 videos from 91 countries were submitted in response to an open call for submissions aimed " to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video ".

In response to the offer from Dr. L. C. Parnell, Jr., to house his Civil War collection in the existing library at 845 Valley Street if an expansion of the library were undertaken, Parnell Memorial Library Foundation was incorporated on March 23, 1998.

The law, intended as a response to the 2005 riots, was intended to stimulate job growth and arrest the 23 % youth unemployment rate by allowing employers to fire employees aged under 26 within the first two years of their employment for any or no reason.

In response to this, the Federal Reserve System was created by the Federal Reserve Act of December 23, 1913, establishing a new central bank intended to serve as a formal " lender of last resort " to banks in times of liquidity crisis — panics where depositors tried to withdraw their money faster than a bank could pay it out.

Partly in response, the nearly defeated ERP besieged the important Monte Chingolo Armory on December 23.

The Faculty of Law was officially created in 1848, making it the first to be established in Canada, as a response to a petition from 23 young men who had been studying independently for the bar.

Looping back to South View, Ryan fired 23 rounds at PC Roger Brereton, a police officer who had just arrived at the scene in response to reports of gunfire.

In response, the Soviets did not complete the repatriation of the Allied prisoners of war in their possession, leaving roughly 23, 500 American and 30, 000 British and Commonwealth soldiers in Soviet hands.

**** Greens response to decision to abandon appeal of High Court decision ( 23 March 2006 )

On June 23, 2006 Martin Peretz, in response to criticism of the magazine from the blog Daily Kos, wrote the following as a summary of TNR's stances on then-recent issues:

In response, Schön sued the University, and appeared in court to testify on September 23, 2010.

The center was founded by Bob and Gay Smither in response to the murder of their daughter Laura Kate Smither ( April 23, 1984-April 3, 1997 ).

Instead, on August 23, in response to the news of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the King had issued a Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition, declaring the North American colonies to be in a state of rebellion and ordering " all Our officers.

He also formally cursed the city, saying " You shall be brought down to Hades ," ( Matthew 11: 23 ) because of their lack of response to his teaching.