" 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.

" Picking up this line of argument and declaring " a great departure from the principles of free contract ," Gladstone created an Irish Land Court with complete control over rents and other landlord-tenant issues.

An argument in favor of Kant as deist is Alan Wood's " Kant's Deism ," in P. Rossi and M. Wreen ( eds.

*" The first argument ," writes Rachels, " has several variations, each suggesting the same general point:

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.

He famously put the point into dramatic relief with his 1939 essay " Proof of an External World ", in which he gave a common sense argument against scepticism by raising his right hand and saying " Here is one hand ," and then raising his left and saying " And here is another ," then concluding that there are at least two external objects in the world, and therefore that he knows ( by this argument ) that an external world exists.

A minority argument for a date between AD 37 and AD 61 for the Gospel typically suggests that Luke's address to " Most Excellent Theophilus ," may be a reference to the Roman-imposed High Priest of Israel between AD 37 and AD 41, Theophilus ben Ananus.

In the early 18th century, Nicolas Malebranche wrote " An organized body contains an infinity of parts that mutually depend upon one another in relation to particular ends, all of which must be actually formed in order to work as a whole ," arguing in favor of preformation, rather than epigenesis, of the individual ; and a similar argument about the origins of the individual was made by other 18th century students of natural history.

He concluded, " So, please " Cornucopians ," let's not hear any more of the Ehrlich-Simon bet, which proves, in fact, both that man is mortal and must make short-term bets, and, more importantly, that Ehrlich's argument was right ( so far ).

A typical example of the Annales School's " total history ," Bloch's argument weaves the connections between politics, culture, and economics against a backdrop of class conflict to illustrate how " the conscious actions of men have overcome the rhythms of the materialist causality of history.

These skills were taught first by a group of self-styled " sophists " who were known to charge fees, to " make the weaker argument the stronger ," and to make their students " better " through instruction in excellence.

Among their most influential concepts are " dissociation ," " the universal audience ," " quasi-logical argument ," and " presence.

In the final section of " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ," Edwards shows his theological argument throughout scripture and biblical history.

The term " speciesism ," and the argument that it was simply a prejudice, first appeared in 1970 in a privately printed pamphlet, titled " Speciesism ," written by British psychologist Richard D. Ryder.

Most important was the populist argument ; that there was a need to " Awaken, in the senators ... a more acute sense of responsibility to the people ," which it was felt they lacked ; election through state legislatures was seen as an anachronism that was out of step with the wishes of the American people, and one that had led to the Senate becoming " a sort of aristocratic body-too far removed from the people, beyond their reach, and with no special interest in their welfare ".

Heidegger's intuition about the question of being is thus a historical argument, which in his later work becomes his concern with the " history of being ," that is, the history of the forgetting of being, which according to Heidegger requires that philosophy retrace its footsteps through a productive " destruction " of the history of philosophy.

The argument of ISPs against common carrier classification has largely conflated " telecommunications carriers " with " common carriers ," assuming that if they were labeled as " common carriers ," they would be regulated under Title II of the Communications Act by the FCC.

Instead, the plaintiffs extended their argument on the copyright clause to note that the clause requires Congress to " promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts ," and argued that retroactive extensions do not directly serve this purpose in the standard quid pro quo previously required by the courts.

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.

He once said: " I can't get in a mild discussion without turning it into an argument.

A propositional argument using modus ponens is said to be deductive.

An argument is a set of statements, one of which ( the conclusion ), it is said or implied, follows from the others ( the premises ).

For the skeptics, the logical mode of argument was untenable, as it relied on propositions which could not be said to be either true or false without relying on further propositions.

The evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin, a colleague of Gould ’ s, is a proponent of said argument in relation to the cognitive ability tests that determine a person ’ s intelligence quotient.

In a review of The Mismeasure of Man, Bernard Davis, professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, said that Gould erected a straw man argument based upon incorrectly defined key terms — specifically reification — which Gould furthered with a " highly selective " presentation of statistical data, all motivated more by politics than by science.

Alonso Moleiro said that " Reporters bought the argument that you have to put journalistic standards aside, that if we don't get rid of Chavez, we will have communism and Fidelismo.

In an interview for Today shortly after her departure from office in 1991, Margaret Thatcher said that Powell had " made a valid argument, if in sometimes regrettable terms.

On the other hand, if such reasoned conclusions are only built originally upon a foundation of sense perceptions, then, the argument being considered goes, our most logical conclusions can never be said to be certain because they are built upon the very same fallible perceptions they seek to better.

" The novelist Simon Ings, writing in the New Scientist, said Polkinghorne's argument for the proposition that God is real is cogent and his evidence elegant.

However, there is an argument that nuclear and biological weapons do not belong in the same category as chemical and " dirty bomb " radiological weapons, which have limited destructive potential ( and close to none, as far as property is concerned ), whereas nuclear and biological weapons have the unique ability to kill large numbers of people with very small amounts of material, and thus could be said to belong in a class by themselves.

Offering an alternative, Nussbaum cites John Rawls's work in A Theory of Justice to highlight " an example of a rational argument ; it can be said to yield, in a perfectly recognizable sense, ethical truth.

" In a Qantas inflight radio program named " Reeling in the Years ", Copeland said an ongoing argument between himself and Sting over what drum machine to use in the sessions was " the straw that broke the camel's back ", and led to the group's unraveling.

What he said of Martin Luther applies peculiarly to himself: he could fling his fury into theses and thus unite the dry light of argument with the fire and heat of passion.

Though the playwright romanticizes Antigone's sense of honor and duty to what is morally right, in this case resisting the Nazi forces, it can also be said that Anouilh, like Sophocles before him, makes a convincing argument for Creon ’ s method of leadership.

Countering the argument that the Cārvākas opposed all that was good in the Vedic tradition, Dale Riepe says, " It may be said from the available material that Cārvākas hold truth, integrity, consistency, and freedom of thought in the highest esteem.

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.

Juror 8 presents a convincing argument that one of the witnesses, an elderly man, who claimed to have heard the boy yell " I'm going to kill you " shortly before the murder took place, could not have heard the voices as clearly as he had testified, as well as stating that " I'm going to kill you ," is often said by people who do not mean it literally.

: ` And this the Presbyter used to say is in the plural implying John the Elder would employ this argument multiple times in defense of Mark's Gospel: " Mark, being the recorder of Peter, wrote accurately but not in order whatever he remembered of the things either said or done by the Lord ; for he had neither heard the Lord nor followed him, but later, as I said, Peter, who used to make teachings according to the cheias, special kind of anecdote but not making as it were a systematic composition of the Lord's sayings ; so that Mark did not err at all when he wrote certain things just as he had recalled.

Lange said that Labour went into the election with an unfinished argument doing duty as its economic policy.

The Court said that " it would be running the slavery argument into the ground to make it apply to every act of discrimination which a person may see fit to make as to guests he will entertain, or as to the people he will take into his coach or cab or car ; or admit to his concert or theatre, or deal with in other matters of intercourse or business.

After reviewing criticisms from several authors, atheist philosopher Michael Martin said that although " Wells's thesis is controversial and not widely accepted ," his " argument against the historicity of Jesus is sound ".

The " Voices Carry " single peaked at number eight on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, and is said to have been inspired by an argument between Mann and Hausman, who had broken off a relationship before the album's release.