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 trouble, '' explained Loy Henderson, then Deputy Undersecretary for Administration, `` is that when we get into an argument with him about this thing, it always turns out that Rooney knows more about our budget than we do ''.

Willie's big day revived the running argument about the relative merits of Mays and Mickey Mantle.

You can get into an argument about fallout shelters at the drop of a beer stein in clubs and pubs these nights.

All variations of the argument from morality begin with an observation about moral thought or experiences and conclude with the existence of God.

" The university was not challenged about the origin of its interracial dating policy, and the District Court accepted " on the basis of a full evidentiary record " BJU's argument that the rule was a sincerely held religious conviction, a finding affirmed by all subsequent courts.

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.

Several replies argue that Searle's argument is irrelevant because his assumptions about the mind and consciousness are faulty.

An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle three years previously, tells how " after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him.

* Karlyn Kohrs Campbell presents an interesting argument about Christine ’ s ability to create a female-oriented dialogue in her lecture Three Tall Women: Radical Challenges to Criticism, Pedagogy, and Theory ( The Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, National Communication Association, 2001 ).

* the writings of David Hume and Immanuel Kant ( and later, Charles Darwin ), which increased doubt about the first cause argument and the argument from design, turning many ( though not all ) potential deists towards atheism instead

Considerable argument broke out as a result, with significant numbers of servicemen disputing the published version, including Admiral Bacon, who wrote his own book about the battle, criticising the version sponsored by Beatty and highly critical of Beatty's own part in the Battle.

This argument is embodied in the Copernican principle, which states that the Earth does not occupy a unique position in the Universe, and the mediocrity principle, which holds that there is nothing special about life on Earth.

The use of tabernacle terminology in Hebrews has been used to date the epistle before the destruction of the temple, the idea being that knowing about the destruction of both Jerusalem and the temple would have influenced the development of the author's overall argument to include such evidence.

Either they were created with a definite ( opposite ) spin about every axis — a " hidden variable " argument —

This may mean that the argument is not a good one, or it may show something interesting about northern European culture as compared to Celtic and southern European culture.

Keynes asked his friend Piero Sraffa to respond publicly to Hayek's challenge ; instead of formulating an alternative theory, Sraffa elaborated on the logical inconsistencies of Hayek's argument, especially concerning the effect of inflation-induced " forced savings " on the capital sector and about the definition of a " natural " interest rate in a growing economy.

The argument clearly depends on the assumption that if " good " were definable, it would be an analytic truth about " good ," an assumption many contemporary moral realists like Richard Boyd and Peter Railton reject.

Scientist Carl Sagan, for example, a strong supporter of the Galileo mission, said in 1989 that " there is nothing absurd about either side of this argument.

Onis's argument was that their advertising could be seen in prominent landmarks throughout London, having been already accredited, showing concern about the impact IKEA's campaign would have on the originality of their own.

" It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as " an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins " rather than " a religious-based idea ".

Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.

If the argument is accepted as essentially sound up to this point, it remains for us to consider whether the patient's difficulties in orienting himself spatially and in locating objects in space with the sense of touch can be explained by his defective visual condition.

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

Raymond has refused to speculate on whether the " bazaar " development model could be applied to works such as books and music, not wanting to " weaken the winning argument for open-sourcing software by tying it to a potential loser ".

For the rest of Major's premiership the main argument was over whether Britain would join the planned European Single Currency.

The strength of such an argument depends on the warrant, i. e. whether or not one can demonstrate a process which leads to the significant effect.

The question of whether or not existence is a predicate has been discussed since the Early Modern period, not least in relation to the ontological argument for the existence of God.

This argument is valid, but this has no bearing on whether any of the statements in the argument are true ; for modus ponens to be a sound argument, the premises must be true for any true instances of the conclusion.

An alternative viewpoint of some credobaptists is that since all Christians are predestined to salvation ( John 15: 16, 1 Cor. 1: 27, Eph. 1: 4, 1 Pt. 2: 4 ), God will not allow his elect to die before receiving their need, even if they are in old age ( Luke 2: 25-35 ), an argument whose relation to baptism whether of infants or adults is unclear, unless it means that infants who die without coming to explicit belief and baptism are not among God's elect.

There has been considerable argument among paleontologists about whether the main wing membranes ( brachiopatagia ) attached to the hind limbs, and if so, where.

The argument over whether we are all unique individuals ( Uniqueness ) or if humans are basically similar in their nature ( Universality ).

A philosophical argument has ensued for centuries about whether or not rhetoric and truth have any correlation to one another.

Similarly the question of whether a Turing machine T terminates on an initially empty tape ( rather than with an initial word w given as second argument in addition to a description of T, as in the full halting problem ) is still undecidable.

The argument also becomes more complex when it is considered whether " position " should be considered an attribute.

He argues that the design argument is built upon a faulty analogy as, unlike with man-made objects, we have not witnessed the design of a universe, so do not know whether the universe was the result of design.

Instead, the argument shifted to a discussion of whether his demise should be considered a desirable or regrettable eventuality.

There exists some argument among historians as to whether Rollo was a " duke " ( dux ) or whether his position was equivalent to that of a " count " under Charlemagne.

The question of whether or not existence is a predicate has been discussed since the Early Modern period, not least in relation to the ontological argument for the existence of God.

The chief, in a somewhat less than civil manner, won the argument about whether he had the right to check the passports of Englishmen by inviting them to spend the night in a cell.

Switch reference is a type of discourse deixis, and a grammatical feature found in some languages, which indicates whether the argument of one clause is the same as the argument of the previous clause.

In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U. S. 394 ( 1886 ), the reporter noted in the headnote to the opinion that the Chief Justice began oral argument by stating, " The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations.