Shroeder's argument, however, was never fully accepted.

Underlying these conceptions of mimesis are certain presuppositions concerning the nature of primary human experience which require some exposition before the main argument can proceed.

She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara Sullam ; ;

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

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 argument against this last approach is comparable to that which rejects stories about hoop snakes, about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again, or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; ;

The P.D.I. and later the Popular Movement protected the Istiqlal's `` privileged position '' until the fall of Balafrej, and then the Istiqlal used the same argument, which it had previously ignored, against the pro-U.N.F.P. tendencies of the Ibrahim government.

The first argument is thus an ideal experiment in which we use the method of difference.

I come now to a third argument, which again is very simple.

He uses methods of argument throughout his essay which lampoon then-influential William Petty and the social engineering popular among followers of Francis Bacon.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

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.

The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another.

Mordell's theorem had an ad hoc proof ; Weil began the separation of the infinite descent argument into two types of structural approach, by means of height functions for sizing rational points, and by means of Galois cohomology, which was not to be clearly named as that for two more decades.

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:

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

The beauty of his argument is that the final result does not depend upon which forces are involved in setting up the dynamic equilibrium.

Greek historian Plutarch discusses an argument between Chrysippus ( 3rd century BCE ) and Hipparchus ( 2nd century BCE ) of a rather delicate enumerative problem, which was later shown to be related to Schröder numbers.

But other thinkers sympathetic to his basic argument have suggested that the necessary ( though perhaps still not sufficient ) extra conditions may include the ability to pass not just the verbal version of the Turing test, but the robotic version, which requires grounding the robot's words in the robot's sensorimotor capacity to categorize and interact with the things in the world that its words are about, Turing-indistinguishably from a real person.

: A further argument is that relativistic difficulties about establishing which measurement occurred first also undermine the idea that one observer is causing what the other is measuring.

However, in CL it is necessary to explicitly refer to the function namespace when passing a function as an argument — which is also a common occurrence, as in the example above.

They had an argument over a party Eugene held, which Gauss refused to pay for.

The Senate quickly met and began debating a change of government, but this eventually devolved into an argument over which of them would be the new princeps.

The experiment is the centerpiece of Searle's Chinese room argument which holds that a program cannot give a computer a " mind ", " understanding " or " consciousness ", regardless of how intelligently it may make it behave.

This argument rests on the assumption that one can have a " moral " discussion on various scales ; that is, what is " good " for: a certain part of your being ( leaving open the possibility of conflicting motives ), you as a single individual, your family, your society, your species, your type of species.

The Australian philosopher David Stove harshly criticized philosophical idealism, arguing that it rests on what he called " the worst argument in the world ".

One argument based on incompatible properties rests on a definition of God that includes a will, plan or purpose and an existence outside of time.

If it were different, states would not have the right, nor be in a position, to maintain that minimum of order on which all civilized life rests .” Calling the concept a “ red herring ” he stated: “ This argument has been used by the terrorists themselves, arguing that there is no difference between their activities and those by governments and states.

His argument for this position rests heavily on the claim that morally arbitrary factors ( for example, the family one is born into ) shouldn't determine one's life chances or opportunities.

His argument rests on the premise that given sufficiently advanced technology, it is possible to represent the populated surface of the Earth without recourse to quantum simulation ; that the qualia experienced by a simulated consciousness is comparable or equivalent to that of a naturally occurring human consciousness ; and that one or more levels of simulation within simulations would be feasible given only a modest expenditure of computational resources in the real world.

This argument involves the disputed claim that Edward IV of England was illegitimate and the claim that the current British royal family's claim to the throne rests on descent from Edward's daughter, Elizabeth of York.

The Report does not provide further detail, or primary source material that would substantiate its claim that the Faisal-Bayoumi transfers did not " directly or indirectly " assist the hijackers ; it simply rests on the fact that the burden of proof for any argument that the transfers did assist the hijackers has not been met by available evidence.

The original argument rests on the concept of oxidative stress and ROS – the LHC and other components of the photosynthetic array can absorb only a certain amount of energy from sunlight.

Criticisms from those critical of ( or agnostic toward ) faith as rational have included that Reformed epistemology rests on the presupposition that there is religious truth, but does not present any argument to show that there is any ( compare Fideism ).

The argument regarding warehousing rests, in this case, upon the theory that any punishment considered respectful of human rights should not include caging humans for life without chance of release — that even death is morally and ethically a higher road than no-parole prison sentences.

After this testimony the prosecution rests, and the defense argument begins.

Church has to play her part through rational argument and she has to reawaken the spiritual energy without which justice … cannot prevail and prosper ", According to Pope John Paul II, its foundation " rests on the threefold cornerstones of human dignity, solidarity and subsidiarity ".

It may be added that McTaggart's argument against the A-series rests on the assumption of two premises:

His argument rests on the translation of the Greco-Coptic term apophasis as denial.

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

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.

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.

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.