In structure, Johnson points out the same central theme, that of cannibalism and the eating of babies as well as the same final argument, that " human depravity is such that men will attempt to justify their own cruelty by accusing their victims of being lower than human.

This is the central argument of those who argue for a mixed market, free at the base, but with government oversight to control social problems.

This argument for intersubjectivity is central to the conception of selfhood developed in the Doctrine of Science ( aka ' Wissenschaftslehre ').

The argument is central to intelligent design, and is rejected by the scientific community at large, which overwhelmingly regards intelligent design as pseudoscience.

In 1973 Maynard Smith formalised a central concept in evolutionary game theory called the evolutionarily stable strategy ( ESS ), based on a verbal argument by George R. Price.

The central argument of council communism, in contrast to those of Social democracy and Leninist communism, is that workers ' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the natural and legitimate form of working class organisation and government power.

The central argument of the book is an expansion of the utilitarian idea that " the greatest good of the greatest number " is the only measure of good or ethical behaviour.

In his view, the central argument against abortion may be stated as the following syllogism:

His argument is based on the belief that truth is not a central, objective set of facts but that truth is based on the situation at hand.

Kurzweil's central argument is derived from the predictions of Moore's Law that the rate of innovation of computer technology is increasing not linearly but rather exponentially.

Adam Smith made the argument that free labor was economically better than slave labor, and argued further that slavery in Europe ended during the Middle Ages, and then only after both the church and state were separate, independent and strong institutions, that it is nearly impossible to end slavery in a free, democratic and republican forms of governments since many of its legislators or political figures were slave owners, and would not punish themselves, and that slaves would be better able to gain their freedom when there was centralized government, or a central authority like a king or the church.

Developments in geology meant that there was little opposition based on a literal reading of Genesis, but defence of the argument from design and natural theology was central to debates over the book in the English speaking world.

" Such publications introduced concepts central to intelligent design, including irreducible complexity ( a variant of the watchmaker analogy ) and specified complexity ( closely resembling a fine-tuning argument ).

Its central argument is that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and is a better predictor of many personal dynamics, including financial income, job performance, chance of unwanted pregnancy, and involvement in crime than are an individual's parental socioeconomic status, or education level.

claim that mathematics does not address the central point in Zeno's argument, and that solving the mathematical issues does not solve every issue the paradoxes raise.

This argument has remained a central argument in all political, ethical and moral thinking since then, and has become especially controversial since firstly Rousseau's Second Discourse, and secondly, the Theory of Evolution.

The essential thrust of Lakoff's work has been the argument that metaphors are primarily a conceptual construction, and indeed are central to the development of thought.

First published in 1982, Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language contends that the central argument of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations centers on a devastating rule-following paradox that undermines the possibility of our ever following rules in our use of language.

William H. Donahue has published a translation of the work's central argument, published in 1996, along with expansion of included proofs and ample commentary.

The method begins by calling on a student at random, and asking about a central argument put forth by one of the judges ( typically on the side of the majority ) in an assigned case.

Dialectic ( also dialectics and the dialectical method ) is a method of argument for resolving disagreement that has been central to Indian and European philosophy since antiquity.

A central argument made by Australian republicans is that, as Australia is an independent country, it is inappropriate for Britain's monarch to be Australia's Head of State.

Peter Sarnak also gave contributions to the central argument.

The UUA does not have a central creed in which members are required to believe, but they have found it useful to articulate their common values in what has become known as the Principles and Purposes.

In regulating the names of animals it holds by six central principles, which were first set out ( as Principles ) in the third edition of the Code ( 1985 ):

Specifically, Randolph promoted the Principles of ' 98, which said that individual states could judge the constitutionality of central government laws and decrees, and could refuse to enforce laws deemed unconstitutional.

The latter were reinforced in 1962 by articles and speeches by Soviet party leader Nikita Khrushchev proposing a central Comecon planning organ to implement the Basic Principles and foreseeing the evolution of a " socialist commonwealth " based on a unified regional economy.

It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.

The family estate was situated near Vadstena on Lake Vattern in south central Sweden.

It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.

In 1951 the pool's operation was transferred to the newly-created Department of Administration, an agency established as the central staff and auxiliary department of the state government.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

Microscopically, there was hyperemia of the central veins, and there was some atrophy of adjacent parenchyma.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.

At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival, that of the literal, factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels.

Her permanent titanium shell was recessed behind an even more indestructible barrier in the central shaft of the scout ship.

In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

By contrast, the National Union Party was united and energized as Lincoln made emancipation the central issue, and state Republican parties stressed the perfidy of the Copperheads.

Altruism was central to the teachings of Jesus found in the Gospel, especially in the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain.

Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.

In 1911, Ernest Rutherford gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's mass and a positive charge which, in units of the electron's charge, was to be approximately equal to half of the atom's atomic weight, expressed in numbers of hydrogen atoms.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).