Hume himself was uncomfortable with the terms deist and atheist, and Hume scholar Paul Russell has argued that the best and safest term for Hume's views is irreligion.

In what historian Robert R. Russell calls the " Calhoun Doctrine ," Calhoun argued that the Federal Government's role in the territories was only that of the trustee or agent of the several sovereign states: it was obliged not to discriminate among the states and hence was incapable of forbidding the bringing into any territory of anything that was legal property in any state.

Opponents, such as Dean Russell in The TVA Idea, in addition to condemning the project as being socialist, argued that TVA created a " hidden loss " by preventing the creation of " factories and jobs that would have come into existence if the government had allowed the taxpayers to spend their money as they wished.

Bertrand Russell argued that individual actions are based upon the beliefs of the person acting, and if the beliefs are unsupported by evidence, then such beliefs can lead to destructive actions.

Bertrand Russell argued that all of natural language, even logical connectives, is vague ; moreover, representations of propositions are vague.

The skeptic philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell argued that the antidote to odium theologicum is science, which he characterized as dealing purely with fact, devoid of any personal commitment.

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.

Russell argued that the English civil war was much less a result of long term constitutional conflicts than had previously been thought, and that its origins are to be sought rather in the years immediately preceding the outbreak of war in 1642 and in the context of the problems of the multiple kingdoms of the British Isles, a hypothesis for which he was indebted to the pioneering study of H. G. Koenigsberger.

Lord Russell was elected at the top of his party's list of hereditary peers to retain their seats, though he had consistently argued in favour of abolishing the Lords completely, and replacing it with an elected senate.

However, the Russell Group's Wendy Piatt argued that the current level of funding was inadequate, saying " as universities are facing severe economic conditions and ferocious global competition it is clear that the status quo is not viable ".

" The case went to the Supreme Court, where Russell and the members of 2 Live Crew argued that song parodies were protected under fair use.

The University of New England's Russell McDougall, in turn, has recently argued that Windschuttle's use of Henry Ling Roth's word-lists to deny a indigenous Tasmanian concept of ' land ' constitutes ' a wrong-headed attempt to undermine the legitimacy of Aboriginal land claims ,’ especially since Roth's lists made no claim to capture a linguistic totality, and Roth himself cited earlier testimonials to the fact that, though nomadic, the ' Tasmanians confined themselves within the boundaries of specific territories.

In 2006 he was once again placed second on the SNP regional list in the South of Scotland though this time the list was chosen by a one member, one vote system for which Russell had argued over a long period and was re-elected to Parliament in 2007.

In short, Russell argued that the syntactic form of descriptions ( phrases that took the form of " The aardvark " and " An aardvark ") is misleading, as it does not correlate their logical and / or semantic architecture.

While descriptions may seem fairly uncontroversial phrases, Russell argued that providing a satisfactory analysis of the linguistic and logical properties of a description is vital to clarity in important philosophical debates, particularly in semantic arguments, epistemology and metaphysics.

P. F. Strawson argued that Russell had failed to correctly represent what one means when one says a sentence in the form of " the current Emperor of Germany is gray.

Russell has argued that it would be too much of a coincidence to have two inscriptions made at the same time in the same town citing two separate individuals with the same name, especially as the name ‘ Lucullus ’ does not appear anywhere else in the British Isles during the Roman period.

In 1911, one John A. Russell published a pamphlet, " Prehistoric discoveries in Wayne County, Michigan ", in which he argued for their authenticity.

New Zealand film critic Russell Campbell argued that the film was part of the surrealist tradition ; in particular, it rejected the " rationalism " which results in nuclear weapons.

Russell argued that Plan B was preferred to Plan C, being more in accord with the Peel Commission's plan, more likely to secure peace, and more equitable and practical.

Perhaps also significant is that Bertrand Russell argued that knowledge by acquaintance played an important part in epistemology.

Another view is found in Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind who argued that the American Revolution was " a conservative reaction, in the English political tradition, against royal innovation ".

George William Russell in The Candle of Vision ( 1918 ) argued that ( p. 120 ) " The mind of man is made in the image of Deity, and the elements of speech are related to the powers in his mind and through it to the being of the Oversoul.

The SPC had previously opposed " popular front " campaigns with centrist labour parties, and Russell himself had argued in 1918 that it was pointless to elect labour representatives to capitalist legislatures.

In 1960 Bertrand Russell resigned from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in order to form the Committee of 100, which became, in effect, the direct action wing of CND.

Demme's next film, 1980's Melvin and Howard, did not get a wide release, but received a groundswell of critical acclaim, and led to the signing of Demme to direct the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell star vehicle Swing Shift.

Apocalyptic fiction generally concerns the disaster itself and the direct aftermath, while post-apocalyptic can deal with anything from the near aftermath ( as in Cormac McCarthy's The Road ) to 375 years in the future ( as in By The Waters of Babylon ) to hundreds or thousands of years in the future, as in Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker and Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Press releases announcing the convention were sent to local radio and newspapers, prompting the San Francisco Chronicle to direct a jab at Russell Wolden and publicize the convention when Herb Caen wrote, " Russ Wolden, if no one else, will be interested to learn that the Daughters of Bilitis will hold their nat ' l convention here May 27 – 30.

The film was originally offered to Ken Russell, who chose instead to direct Valentino.

One Witness history book says that while Russell was kind, warm and tactful, Rutherford " was warm and generous toward his associates but he was also a brusque and direct type of person, and his legal background and experiences in early life gave him a directness in his approach to problems in dealing with his brothers that caused some to take offense.

Tokyo has been beaming a program called the ' Zero Hour ' direct to the Russell Islands and Guadalcanal.

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According to Russell, knowledge by acquaintance is obtained through a direct causal ( experience-based ) interaction between a person and the object that person is perceiving.

This was part of a bigger plan to get the a picture of Tom with Russell and Judah and send it out with a tongue-in-cheek press release (" Tom Waits Blues Explosion ") to see if the story would get picked-up by the mainstream press but before the event took place a record company publicist took the text direct from the Blues Explosion website and sent it out as a legitimate press release and very nearly led to the show being called off.

Paddy Russell was originally assigned to direct this serial, but she was unavailable for the recording dates so Mervyn Pinfield was suggested as her replacement.

However, there was never any evidence that Russell had any direct connection with the political blog.

M. Russell Ballard, a current member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church, is also a direct descendant of Hyrum Smith.

She joins the Russell campaign, which later puts her in direct confrontation with her former boss.

Moore also pioneered the use of logical analysis against the absolutists, which Bertrand Russell promulgated and began the entire tradition of analytic philosophy with its use against the philosophies of his direct predecessors.

Under the direct supervision of superintendent Glen Russell, the authority has operated and maintained the reservoir and associated facilities, including an attached water pipeline, a surge tank, a regulating tank, a maintenance complex, and land easements surrounding these facilities.

Currently, investment opportunities exist where one can capitalize on replicated movements in direct correlation to the Russell 2000.

According to Russell, all knowledge is ultimately dependent upon experience, but some of it is direct, which is when we have knowledge by acquaintance, and some of it is indirect, which depends on a description of a direct experience.

John Owen Edwards or David Russell Hulme often music direct the company.

Mr. Mudd's producers, John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, and Russell Smith, hired the novel's author Stephen Chbosky, to write an adapted screenplay and to direct the film.

Many times, Russell would talk a friend into pulling a gag on someone, thereby relieving Russell of direct blame.

In his direct reference theory, Russell first distinguished between a " logical subject " and a " grammatical subject.