The concordance of the language used in the Testimonium, its flow within the text and its length have formed components of the internal arguments against its authenticity, e. g. that the brief and compact character of the Testimonium stands in marked contrast to Josephus ' more extensive accounts presented elsewhere in his works.

Unlike many contemporary texts on the topic, he does not engage the games in the text with moralistic arguments ; instead, he portrays them in an astrological context.

Derrida's deconstructions attempt to give opposing interpretations of the same text by rhetoric arguments, similar to how lawyers in a court case may argue from the same text, the same set of laws that is, to reach opposite conclusions.

One of the arguments he used against Sancho II in his Grandi non immerito text was his status as a minor upon inheriting the throne from his father Afonso II.

) Once the text of this interpolated letter is removed and the two letters compared, Murphy-O ' Connor asserts that this objection is " drastically weakened ", and concludes, " The arguments against the authenticity of 2 Thessalonians are so weak that it is preferable to accept the traditional ascription of the letter to Paul.

The leader keeps the topic focused by asking a variety of questions about the text, follow-up questions and questions to help clarify positions when arguments become confused and / or involve reluctant participants while restraining others who are actively involved.

Duthie's arguments were never fully accepted, however, as critics tended to look on the relationship between the two plays as an either-or situation ; A Shrew is either a reported text or an early draft.

Do you have multiple arguments or points occurring in that portion of the text?

The work of Trogus is lost ; but the prologi or arguments of the text are preserved by Pliny and other writers.

Certain episodes from the life of Abraham have been more heavily detailed in Islamic text, such as the arguments between Abraham and the evil king Nimrod, the near-sacrifice of his son, and the story of Hagar and Ishmael, which Muslims commemorate when performing pilgrimage in Mecca.

* Oregon Voter's Guide page for Measure 28 -- includes ballot title, text of the measure, and arguments for and against

* Oregon Voter's Guide page for Measure 27 -- includes ballot title, text of the measure, and arguments for and against

After the text revision of the fourth edition of the DSM, a debate arose, with arguments to recategorize dyspareunia as a pain disorder instead of a sex disorder, with Charles Allen Moser, a physician, arguing for the removal of dyspareunia from the manual altogether.

The most compelling arguments that suggest the removal of part of the same verse text we now have relate to the shape and character of the erasure itself.

Similar arguments were also used in Harivarman ’ s * Satyasiddhi Śāstra, a quasi-Mahāyāna text, and the Upadeśa commentary on the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, both of which have strong influence from the Sarvāstivāda school.

In some instances, Foster has raised arguments challenging whether the person traditionally identified as the author of a text was correct.

Besides arguments that can be made from the actual text of the JST, there are questions regarding the reliability of and degree of supervision given to the scribes who were involved in transcribing, copying, and preparing the text for publication.

* Oregon Voter's Guide page on Measure 51 -- includes the full text of the measure, and arguments for and against

The patch file ( also called a patch for short ) is a text file that consists of a list of differences and is produced by running the related diff program with the original and updated file as arguments.

At the time of execution, any remaining text from the command line used to call the program is pushed onto the stack, this provides one method for the user to pass arguments into the code to be acted upon.

* Oregon Voter's Guide page for Measure 30 -- includes full text of the measure and arguments for and against

In a Mormon journal, clearly parodying arguments for the Book of Mormon, it has been jokingly suggested that, within Green Eggs and Ham, " the rich presence of complex chiasmi, multiple Hebraicisms, Israelite cultural references, and Old Testament themes supports the theory that Green Eggs and Ham is, in fact, an ancient text of Semitic origin.

The appellant has the opportunity to present arguments for the granting of the appeal and the appellee ( or respondent ) can present arguments against it.

Philosophers ( and other users of logic ) spend a lot of time and effort searching for and removing ( or intentionally adding ) ambiguity in arguments, because it can lead to incorrect conclusions and can be used to deliberately conceal bad arguments.

Frank Tipler has argued that physics can explain immortality, though such arguments are not falsifiable and thus do not qualify, in Karl Popper's views, as science.

Legal support from the ACLU can take the form of direct legal representation, or preparation of amicus curiae briefs expressing legal arguments ( when another law firm is already providing representation ).

Some arguments from moral order suggest that morality is based on rationality and that this can only be the case if there is a moral order in the universe.

On a more abstract level, model theoretic arguments hold that a given set of symbols in a theory can be mapped onto any number of sets of real-world objects — each set being a " model " of the theory — providing the interrelationships between the objects are the same.

The arguments for a later date ( i. e., 296-298, and most probably 298 ) can be summarized as follows.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

It is one of five arguments from the " properties, causes, and effects " of true motion and rest that support his contention that, in general, true motion and rest cannot be defined as special instances of motion or rest relative to other bodies, but instead can be defined only by reference to absolute space.

Since most people, and most cultures, substantially agree about most pure ethical situations, casuistry often creates ethical arguments that can persuade people of different ethnic, religious and philosophical beliefs to treat particular cases in the same ways.

The coalition partners, if they control the parliamentary majority, can collude to make the parliamentary discussion on the issue irrelevant by consistently disregarding the arguments of the opposition and voting against the opposition's proposals — even if there is disagreement within the ruling parties about the issue.

In mathematics and computer science, currying is the technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments ( or an n-tuple of arguments ) in such a way that it can be called as a chain of functions each with a single argument ( partial application ).

( this is the basis of calculus ) – one can therefore have an infinite series of logical arguments

These formulas can even serve as the definition of the trigonometric functions for complex arguments x.

The number is called the characteristic and can take on any value, independently of the other arguments.

Higher-order functions are functions that can either take other functions as arguments or return them as results.

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 ).

The best that can be done is to survey the arguments for and against their identity, and to see how well each can be supported.

The arguments advanced by those individuals and groups who oppose the system in force and who would drastically curtail or do away entirely with hospital care for the non-service-connected case, seem to be coldly impractical and out-of-step with the wishes of the general public.

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.

It is difficult to determine quantitatively what is considered to be a " good " value in a certain statistical category, and qualitative assessments may lead to arguments.

One of the arguments aired in favour of nationalisation was that it would enable steel production to be rationalised.

To execute an instruction in a computer program, the CPU uses the opcode for that instruction as well as its arguments ( for instance the two numbers to be added, in the case of an addition operation ).

At the present time many scientists and philosophers consider the arguments for an important role of quantum phenomena to be unconvincing.

More generally: which kinds of arguments should be persuasive to Christians, and which do not possess the weight necessary to determine opinions and policies.

Following the arguments of David Dumville, Alcock felt the site was too late and too uncertain to be a tenable Camelot.

It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them ; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations ; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.

My arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Ralph ; but each of them having afterwards wrong'd me greatly without the least compunction, and recollecting Keith's conduct towards me ( who was another freethinker ) and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho ' it might be true, was not very useful.

Like CLOS, Dylan is based on multimethods, where the specific method to be called is chosen based upon the types of all its arguments.

That is, arguments must be linear with conclusions that flow directly from stated premises.

This may be the philosophical equivalent of the more pragmatic arguments made by some scientists.

Michael Wreen argued that “ the principal thing that distinguishes euthanasia from intentional killing simpliciter is the agent's motive: it must be a good motive insofar as the good of the person killed is concerned ”, a view mirrored by Heather Draper, who also spoke to the importance of motive, arguing that " the motive forms a crucial part of arguments for euthanasia, because it must be in the best interests of the person on the receiving end.