Another criticism of the book, made by the philosopher Mary Midgley in her book Evolution as a Religion, is that it discusses philosophical and moral questions that go beyond the biological arguments that Dawkins makes.

Still today, arguments go on whether a specific diagnosis fetishism is needed at all or if paraphilia as such is sufficient.

The traditional arguments for industrial policies go back as far as the 18th century.

In a purely syntactic way, one can go from simple functions to functions that take other functions as their input arguments.

Arguments based on normative constraints, he argues, are not consistent with the fact that democracies do go to war no less than other states, thus violating norms preventing war ; for the same reason he refutes arguments based on the importance of public opinion.

They go on to describe in detail each of these arguments in the article.

" The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf ..."-- Edward Miner Gallaudet, 1864.

It cannot be that each juror should go to the jury room with a blind determination that the verdict shall represent his opinion of the case at that moment, or that he should close his ears to the arguments of men who are equally honest and intelligent as himself.

Prost and Berger's arguments failed and it was agreed the race would go ahead.

In deciding whether or not to advise Charles V to go to war against France in northern Italy, Gattinara constructed an allegory posing the seven deadly sins against the ten commandments — seven causes for avoiding war, and ten arguments in favor.

Her self-sacrifice in sleeping with the German officer underlines her personal courage and the blind hypocrisy of the other travellers ; the travellers go to great lengths to persuade Boule de Suif to sleep with the officer in order that he will let the coach continue its journey, and the travellers fill Boule de Suif's head with arguments, arguing that it is for the good of the country, that it is not morally wrong to sleep with the officer in order to let the travellers leave, and that the longer she waits, the more young French soldiers will die as the nuns are not there to look after them.

Mason's most notable arguments were that the German working-class was always opposed to the Nazi dictatorship ; that in the over-heated German economy of the late 1930s, German workers could force employers to grant higher wages by leaving for another firm that would grant the desired wage increases ; that this was a form of political resistance and this resistance forced Adolf Hitler to go to war in 1939.

This use of protectionism is criticized on grounds that go back to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, which was aimed directly at classical mercantilist policies, and whose arguments are applied to neo-mercantilism.

There are also arguments that go the other way, namely that the life story of Jesus as told by early Christians during the second and third centuries gave rise to new religious movements such as Gnosticism

Churchill is also disappointed by the behaviour of his son Randolph Churchill, which leads to further arguments with Clemmie, who announces she is leaving to go on an extended overseas trip.

Salma was impressed with his arguments, so she agreed to let him go.

* Walrus – A game in which players go back and forth stating nouns that " beat " their opponent's nouns eventually resulting in ridiculous arguments over whether a noun, in fact, beats another noun, e. g., whether Jack Bauer beats Chuck Norris.

As a result of all the arguments getting to her, on 11 February 2011, Sian leaves Weatherfield to go on holiday to Tangiers with her mother and her boyfriend.

The following arguments have been based on the content: ( 1 ) It is perceived to be theologically incompatible with Paul's other epistles: elsewhere Paul attributed Jesus's death to the " rulers of this age " ( 1 Cor 2: 8 ) rather than to the Jews, and elsewhere Paul writes that the Jews have not been abandoned by God for " all Israel will be saved " ( Rom 11: 26 ); According to 1 Thes 1: 10, the wrath of God is still to come, it is not something that has already shown itself ( 2 ) There were no extensive historical persecutions of Christians by Jews in Palestine prior to the first Jewish war ( 3 ) The use of the concept of imitation in 1 Thes.

Abstractly, an array reference is simply a procedure of two arguments: an array and a subscript vector, which could be expressed as ; but many languages provide special syntax like ; similarly an array element update is abstractly something like, but many languages provide syntax like.

Due to controversies and arguments over the band being heavy metal or not than just with nu metal being heavy metal or not, lead singer Jonathan Davis commented, " I remember when were coming out we were fighting being called a metal band because we weren't a metal band, we were something that wasn't classifiable ," Davis says.

Transcendental arguments should not be confused with transcendent arguments, or arguments for the existence of something transcendent.

While arguments attempt to show that something is, will be, or should be the case, explanations try to show why or how something is or will be.

Where a court finds that a party has done something warranting a form of estoppel, that party is said to be " estopped " from making certain related arguments or claiming certain related rights.

There are indications in his liturgical note to the " Book of Cerne " and in " The Genius of the Roman Rite " that Mr. Edmund Bishop, who, as far as he has spoken at all, prefers the conclusions, though not so much the arguments, of Ceriani to either the arguments or conclusions of Duchesne, may eventually have something to say which will put the subject on a more solid basis.

Following arguments presented for Irish Iron Age enclosures, Barclay suggested that they are ' defensive ': that the ditch and bank face something ' dangerous ' inside the enclosure.

And a belief is something that's difficult to counter with rational arguments.

In oral arguments before the Supreme Court in MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., Don Verrilli, representing MGM stated: " And let me clarify something I think is unclear from the amicus briefs.

In the face of McCulloch's arguments that living beings are nothing but highly complex machines, Kroitor insists that there is something more: ' Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God.

These arguments give rise to the famous problem of mind-body causal interaction still debated today: how can the mind cause some of our bodily limbs to move ( for example, raising one's hand to strike something ), and how can the body ’ s sense organs cause sensations in the mind when their natures are completely different?

In the case of arguments used in politics, this something is an assertion about an element of the public sphere, such as economic policy, the environment, decisions about war and peace, abortion etc.

For instance, in the sentence Fergus ate the kibble, the fact that there are two arguments ( Fergus and the kibble ) and Fergus must be capable of volition and doing the action and the kibble must be something that can be eaten is a fact about theta roles ( the number and type of the argument ).

In another example, if an individual attempts to convince others that something is " right ", they can invoke generally accepted arguments that support their agenda.

She tattletales to Mr. Scary about Junie B. they get into arguments a lot and May gets annoyed with Junie B when she tries to talk to her neighbor or she does something Mr. Scary had told her not to do.

In subsequent arguments with Kinks management over the direction of the band, Davies would say " I've done ' Waterloo Sunset ', now I want to do something else ".

This distinction would play an important role in Mazzoni ’ s On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante, in which he would argue that the work, being allegorical and based in a divine vision, was icastic mimesis because it imitates something “ real .” This was meant to counter arguments by writers such as Castravilla who dismissed Dante ’ s work as lacking in verisimilitude and even claimed that the comedy was not poetry at all, as it was simply the recounting of a vision.

The concept originates in Robin Hanson's argument that the failure to find any extraterrestrial civilizations in the observable universe implies the possibility something is wrong with one or more of the arguments from various scientific disciplines that the appearance of advanced intelligent life is probable ; this observation is conceptualized in terms of a " Great Filter " which acts to reduce the great number of sites where intelligent life might arise to the tiny number of intelligent species actually observed ( currently just one: human ).

( Hume 1974: 353-354 ) He produces like arguments against the notion that we have knowledge of these powers as they affect the mind alone.

His arguments were opposed by many of his contemporaries like Eddington and Lev Landau, who argued that some yet unknown mechanism would stop the collapse.

Author Sam Harris has argued that we overestimate the relevance of many arguments against the science of morality, arguments he believes scientists happily and rightly disregard in other domains of science like physics.

For instance, therapists have used sentences like, “ Who is the boy helping ?” and “ What is the boy fixing ?” because both verbs are transitive-they require two arguments in the form of a subject and a direct object, but not necessarily an indirect object.

The distinction between the two is subtle: " higher-order " describes a mathematical concept of functions that operate on other functions, while " first-class " is a computer science term that describes programming language entities that have no restriction on their use ( thus first-class functions can appear anywhere in the program that other first-class entities like numbers can, including as arguments to other functions and as their return values ).

This echoes the arguments of ' medium theorists ' like Marshall McLuhan who look at the social and psychological impacts of the media.

relation to her Witch-Cult theory, She behaved in fact rather like someone who was a fully convinced member of some unusual religious sect, or perhaps, of the Freemasons, but never on any account got into arguments about it in public.

Searing criticisms of arguments like Paley's are found in David Hume's posthumous Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

The collapse of logical positivism renewed interest in philosophy of religion, prompting philosophers like William Alston, John Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne, and Antony Flew not only to introduce new problems, but to re-open classical topics such as the nature of miracles, theistic arguments, the problem of evil, ( see existence of God ) the rationality of belief in God, concepts of the nature of God, and many more.

Analytic epistemology and metaphysics has formed the basis for a number of philosophically-sophisticated theistic arguments, like those of the reformed epistemologists like Plantinga.

Many important restrictions of this type, like checking that identifiers are used in the appropriate context ( e. g. not adding an integer to a function name ), or that subroutine calls have the appropriate number and type of arguments, can be enforced by defining them as rules in a logic called a type system.

Both Hobbes and Bodin thought they were defending the power of kings, not advocating democracy, but their arguments about the nature of sovereignty were fiercely resisted by more traditional defenders of the power of kings, like Sir Robert Filmer in England, who thought that such defenses ultimately opened the way to more democratic claims.

Catholics charge that modalistic monarchianism has its origin by means of influence in Greek pagan philosophy, including pagan philosophers like Euclid and Aristotle, who based their logic on Monism and Aristotle's arguments around his concept energeia ( i. e. energy ) called metaphysics.

A function template behaves like a function except that the template can have arguments of many different types ( see example ).

Jensen also criticized Gould for concentrating on long-disproven arguments ( noting that 71 % of the book's references preceded 1950 ), rather than addressing " anything currently regarded as important by scientists in the relevant fields ", suggesting that drawing conclusions from early human intelligence research is like condemning the contemporary automobile industry based upon the mechanical performance of the Ford Model T.

Hume's arguments were only accepted gradually by the reading public, and his philosophical works sold poorly until agnostics like T H Huxley championed Hume's philosophy in the 19th century.

As far as his intellectual gifts were concerned, he had a wonderful memory, which, if supplemented by other talents in like proportion, would have made him a marvel, but he lacked swiftness of apprehension and deep insight, so that his masses of arguments and citations were indiscriminate, and he was filled with an inconceivable impudence though he had the cleverness to conceal it.

The generics are very close to arguments or templates in other traditional programming languages like C ++.

If the three arguments of a typical ditransitive verb are labeled D ( for Donor ; the subject of a verb like " to give " in English ), T ( for Theme ; normally the direct object of ditransitive verb in English ) and R ( for Recipient, normally the indirect object in English ), these can be aligned with the Agent and Patient of monotransitive verbs and the Subject of intransitive verbs in several ways, which are not predicted by whether the language is accusative, ergative, or active.

A 2-ary operation ( or binary operation ) is often denoted by a symbol placed between its arguments, like x * y.