Hume offers his friend an objection: if we see an unfinished building, then can't we infer that it has been created by humans with certain intentions, and that it will be finished in the future?

As Sears continued to offer optimistic projections for growth, the tower's proposed height soared into the low hundreds of floors and surpassed the height of New York's unfinished World Trade Center to become the world's tallest building.

Palatul Telefoanelor (" The Telephone Palace ") was the first major modernist building on Calea Victoriei in the city's centre, and the massive, unfinished communist-era Casa Radio looms over a park a block away from the Opera.

The tri-colored building on the extreme left is the World Trade Center's unfinished replacement, One World Trade Center.

Underwater scenes were filmed in the containment building of Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant, an unfinished nuclear power plant on Owensby Road, near Gaffney, South Carolina, in the United States.

Roche completed 12 major unfinished Saarinen projects, including some of Saarinen's best-known work: the Gateway Arch, the expressionistic TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport in New York, Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC, the strictly modern John Deere Headquarters in Moline, Illinois, and the CBS Headquarters building in New York City.

Among the many legends surrounding the building is a popular myth suggesting that early taxation laws exempted buildings under construction, so the builders chose to leave one dome unfinished.

Virgil Earp was ambushed on the streets of Tombstone on the evening of December 28, 1881, by hidden assailants shooting from the second story of an unfinished building.

Virgil Earp was ambushed on the streets of Tombstone on the evening of December 28, 1881, by hidden assailants shooting from the second story of an unfinished building.

Nash's original estimate of the building's cost had been £ 252, 690, but this had risen to £ 496, 169 in 1829 the actual cost was £ 613, 269 and the building was still unfinished.

The building was unfinished and has an unusually low elevation on the Grand Canal.

The building was unfinished, and has an unusually low elevation on the Grand Canal.

Three months later on the evening of December 28, 1881 Virgil Earp was ambushed and seriously wounded on the streets of Tombstone by hidden assailants shooting from the second story of an unfinished building.

The unfinished building was sold to the Franciscan Order in 1942 and is operated as a retreat facility, Serra Retreat.

Despite their beauty, they are not real ruins but an unfinished building, which was badly damaged by the 1910 earthquake and then interrupted.

His brick model, high long, was standing in a side aisle of the unfinished building, and had long ago become sacrosanct.

Then he struck out across the road to an unfinished hospital building that had been evacuated already.

The painter John Trumbull handed in William Thornton's still " unfinished " revised plan of the Capitol building on January 29, 1793, but the president's formal approbation was not recorded until April 2, 1793.

It was left unfinished ; a tight corridor heading south at the western end of the chamber and an unfinished shaft at the eastern middle might point out that the subterranean chamber was the eldest of the three chambers and that the original building plan contained a simple chamber complex with several rooms and corridors.

In 1884 she purchased an unfinished farmhouse in Santa Clara Valley, and began building her mansion.

Much of the terminal building was walled off and renovations to that portion were left unfinished.

Kellys wrote of the church and its history: The church of St. James is a building of stone, in the Decorated style, erected in 1845-6 from designs by Mr. G. G. Place, of Nottingham, and consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a tower, as yet unfinished: it has a very elaborately carved Perpendicular font, and the east window and some others are stained ... the destruction of the earlier church in 1643 services were afterwards held in the Chapel of St. Mary, a small building in the middle of the village, which was taken down in 1793, and a church erected on the same site: the present edifice will seat 400 persons.

By 1891 the CPR objected to the unfinished building that had quickly been nicknamed the root house.

The first preliminary was inspecting the unfinished length of frieze, a jumble of roughcast and finish coats, all in bad condition.

This massive text, which Roger Bacon would later sarcastically describe as weighing as much as a horse, was unfinished at his death ; his students, William of Middleton and John of Rupella, were charged with its completion.

His most notable work, Vom Kriege ( On War ), was unfinished at his death.

Claudius ' temple was left unfinished after only some of the foundation had been laid down.

He was able to start the devolution process, and worked endlessly on creating the Scotland Act, popularly known as Smith's " unfinished business ".

" The work was unfinished at Eusebius ' death.

His unfinished history Athens: Its Rise and Fall was published posthumously.

( This chapter was left unfinished by the author.

The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock upon which the pyramid was built and was unfinished.

Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.

In 1949, while working on the new version of Land of Black Gold ( the first version had been left unfinished by the outbreak of World War II ), Hergé suffered a nervous breakdown and was forced to take an abrupt four month-long break.

Two days after Tycho's unexpected death on October 24, 1601, Kepler was appointed his successor as imperial mathematician with the responsibility to complete his unfinished work.

The Grammar was continued in three volumes, treating principally derivation, composition and syntax, the last of which was unfinished.

Perceval, although unfinished, was particularly popular: four separate continuations of the poem appeared over the next half century, with the notion of the Grail and its quest being developed by other writers such as Robert de Boron, a fact that helped accelerate the decline of Arthur in continental romance.

The success of the novel and its serialized nature also allowed many imitators to publish pamphlets concerning the Shandean characters and other Shandean-related material even while the novel was yet unfinished.

An unfinished poem, Avarchide, in imitation of the Iliad, was the work of his old age and has little merit.

Bloch has had lasting influence in the field of historiography through his unfinished manuscript The Historian's Craft, which he was working on at his death.

He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

Michelangelo designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica on or before 1564, although it was unfinished when he died.

The temple was left unfinished during the years of Athenian democracy, apparently because the Greeks thought it hubristic to build on such a scale.

They either argue that it was left unfinished or say that earlier sources, such as Richard Eden's The Decades of the New Worlde Or West India ( 1555 ) and Desiderius Erasmus's Naufragium / The Shipwreck ( 1523 ), sufficiently account for some of the phrasing and images in The Tempest.

The son of the man who bought the unfinished palace on the Grand Canal ( now Ca ' Rezzonico ) and finished its construction, Carlo the pontiff was notorious for his rampant nepotism.

There was no single player support and some of the gameplay and graphics were unfinished or different from their final versions.