In addressing such questions, Wimsatt attempts to resolve what it is that makes poetry different from other forms of communication, concluding that “ what distinguishes poetry from scientific or logical discourse is a degree of concreteness which does not contribute anything to the argument but is somehow enjoyable or valuable for its own sake .” For Wimsatt, poetry is “ the vehicle of a metaphor which one boards heedless of where it runs, whether cross-town or downtown — just for the ride ” ( 76 ).

Habermas distinguishes explicitly between factual consensus, i. e. the beliefs that happen to hold in a particular community, and rational consensus, i. e. consensus attained in conditions approximating an " ideal speech situation ", in which inquirers or members of a community suspend or bracket prevailing beliefs and engage in rational discourse aimed at truth and governed by the force of the better argument, under conditions in which all participants in discourse have equal opportunities to engage in constative ( assertions of fact ), normative, and expressive speech acts, and in which discourse is not distorted by the intervention of power or the internalization of systematic blocks to communication.

Against this argument is the fact that Tacitus distinguishes the Fenni from other probably non-Germanic peoples of the region, such as the Aestii and the Venedi.

An example of Cassuto's style of argument can be seen in his discussion of the divine names-one of the main criteria by which the documentary hypothesis distinguishes between separate sources-where he argued that Yahweh and Elohim are each consistently employed within a particular context and for a specific purpose, " Yahweh " signifying the personal God of revelation and Israel and " Elohim " the more impersonal God of nature and the world: to construe the two names as evidence of two authors was, according to Cassuto, to ignore the overwhelming evidence of Jewish literature itself on this matter.

The revised chapter presents a more detailed elucidation of the argument and distinguishes between " non-rational " and " irrational " processes.

A slippery slope argument states that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect, much like an object given a small push over the edge of a slope sliding all the way to the bottom.

" American sociologist James Q. Wilson encapsulated this argument as the Broken Window Theory, which asserts that relatively minor problems left unattended ( such as litter, graffiti, or public urination by homeless individuals ) send a subliminal message that disorder in general is being tolerated, and as a result, more serious crimes will end up being committed ( the analogy being that a broken window left unrepaired shows an image of general dilapidation ).

Rawls has also emphasized the relatively modest role that maximin plays in his argument: it is " a useful heuristic rule of thumb " given the curious features of choice behind the veil of ignorance.

" Another such argument is provided by Norman Sanders ; " because the play reveals a relatively unsure dramatist and many effects managed with a tiro's lack of expertise, it offers us an opportunity to see more clearly than anywhere else in the canon what were to become characteristic techniques.

The argument is based on the fundamental that differentiation will incur costs to the firm which clearly contradicts with the basis of low cost strategy and on the other hand relatively standardised products with features acceptable to many customers will not carry any differentiation hence, cost leadership and differentiation strategy will be mutually exclusive.

Central to the argument is the claim that, within a given business cycle, the accumulation of surplus from year to year leads to a kind of top-heaviness, in which a relatively fixed number of workers have to add profit to an ever-larger lump of investment capital.

" Although MacIntyre's treatment of traditions is quite complex he does give a relatively concise definition: " A tradition is an argument extended through time in which certain fundamental agreements are defined and redefined " in terms of both internal and external debates.

Another argument in favor of a northern origin for the Albanian language is the relatively small number of words of Greek origin, mostly from Doric dialect, even though Southern Illyria neighbored the Classical Greek civilization and there was a number of Greek colonies along the Illyrian coastline.

According to this argument, during the relatively chaotic 16th and 17th centuries, the Natchez were able to maintain their old social system by adapting it to new conditions.

The main argument against statehood has been the NT's relatively low population.

The argument in favor of balanced budgets is often coupled with a belief that government welfare programs should be narrowly tailored and that tax rates should be low, which implies relatively small government institutions.

He regarded the possible inheritance of a pad on the foot of a male midwife toad as of relatively minor significance in the argument.

Hoffman does give some relatively simple examples of mathematical problems throughout the book ( like Cantor diagonalization argument ) to illustrate some of the ideas in modern mathematics.

* In MATLAB the ans variable is created automatically when no output argument is specified, and it refers to the most recent answer.

This argument has lost much force as recent insight into Greek influence on Judea at the time has come to light.

Scientists regard this argument as having been disproved in the light of research dating back to 1996 as well as more recent findings.

While it was once thought that Locke wrote the Treatises to defend the Glorious Revolution of 1688, recent scholarship has shown that the work was composed well before this date, and it is now viewed as a more general argument against absolute monarchy ( particularly as espoused by Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes ) and for individual consent as the basis of political legitimacy.

Singer's most recent book, The Life You Can Save, makes the argument that it is a clear-cut moral imperative for citizens of developed countries to give more to charitable causes that help the poor.

Research is complicated somewhat by the possibility that such differences could be the consequences of stuttering rather than a cause, but recent research on older children confirm structural differences thereby giving strength to the argument that at least some of the differences are not a consequence of stuttering.

This line of argument has been articulated further in recent years by Canadian philosopher John McMurtry within the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems ( http :// www. eolss. net ) published by UNESCO.

The decision to emphasize the Copyright clause argument was based on both the minority opinion of Judge Sentelle in the appeals court, and on several recent Supreme Court decisions authored by Chief Justice William Rehnquist: United States v. Lopez and United States v. Morrison.

In recent years Putnam has revised this argument.

Robert D. Putnam, in his book Bowling Alone makes the argument that social capital is linked to the recent decline in American political participation.

* Naturalism Defeated A recent transcendental argument by Alvin Plantinga.

In recent years, more archaeological and genetic evidence has been found in both eastern China and western Japan to lend credibility to this argument.

* The recent discovery of self-verifying theories, systems strong enough to talk about themselves, but too weak to carry out the diagonal argument that is the key to Gödel's unprovability argument.

" Numerous more recent scholars continue to uphold Johnson's argument.

The Catholic Encyclopedia states that " many of the recent critical students of the document, Donation of Constantine locate its composition at Rome and attribute the forgery to an ecclesiastic, their chief argument being an intrinsic one: this false document was composed in favour of the popes and of the Roman Church, therefore Rome itself must have had the chief interest in a forgery executed for a purpose so clearly expressed ".

A moral argument associated with this is the Great Ape personhood debate, which has become especially poignant since the recent advocacy by some scientists to move the two chimpanzee species into the genus Homo ( previously it was considered a hominid ).

In recent years, a conspiracy argument used by tax protesters is that an American court displaying an American flag with a gold fringe is in fact an " admiralty court " and thus has no jurisdiction.

" The debate is ongoing, but recent linguistic research may indicate that the pasture or meadow land argument is the more appropriate interpretation of the term Vinland.

The principal argument for making the mountain a public reservation was to protect the Hoosic and Housatonic River watersheds from erosion due to recent trends of deforestation ( particularly noted on the Adams side ).

In recent years, this latter argument has been fortified by the theory of connectionism.

Furthermore, the argument that " something " is needed to explain the differences in the Holocene is challenged by more recent research showing that all interglacials differ.

This argument has won growing political advocates in recent years, including former U. S. Vice Presidential candidate Jack Kemp ( R-NY ) and U. S. Congressman Donald M. Payne ( D-NJ ), both who have written supportably of Johns ' arguments in Investor's Business Daily and elsewhere.

The fine-tuning argument and other recent intelligent design arguments are modern versions of God-of-the-gaps reasoning, where a God is deemed necessary whenever science has not fully explained some phenomenon ".