The core argument of the book is that XP's practices are interdependent but that few practical organizations are willing / able to adopt all the practices ; therefore the entire process fails.

This argument fails in considering the imbalance in self-reported political allegiances by journalists themselves, that distort any market analogy as regards offer: (...) Indeed, in 1982, 85 percent of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism students identified themselves as liberal, versus 11 percent conservative " ( Lichter, Rothman, and Lichter 1986: 48 ), quoted in Sutter, 2001.

The plaintiff argues that it is negligent to give a child a loaded gun and that such negligence caused the injury, but this argument fails, for the injury did not result from the risk that made the conduct negligent.

In his autobiography, Darwin wrote that " The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered ".

Achilles fails in demonstrating the argument because the tortoise leads him into an infinite regression.

However, the argument fails to address natural evil, and it presupposes a libertarianist, incompatibilist view of free will.

McDowell strongly resists this argument: he does not deny that there is something psychologically in common between the subject who really sees the cat and the one that fails to do so.

This argument fails because of the so-called Single Transaction Principle

Thus the argument from the non-instantiation of ( what Mackie terms ) " objective prescriptivity " for moral error theory fails.

However, this argument fails since, in 1826, Carleton wrote a letter to then Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel urging him against Catholic Emancipation ( Peel was already an outspoken opponent ), and offering to provide proof of the involvement of Daniel O ' Connell in agrarian crimes, while also vilifying the Catholic clergy and Roman Catholic schoolteachers.

When the expected value of the stopping time is finite ( which is true in practice ), the following argument explains why the betting system fails: Since expectation is linear, the expected value of a series of bets is just the sum of the expected value of each bet.

In two and more dimensions, this argument fails, as the function

Critics maintain that Kane fails to overcome the greatest challenge to such an endeavor: " the argument from luck ".

Alternatively, a skeptic might concede that the bridge is a good consequence but contend that even on consequentialist grounds the argument fails.

The Penrose / Lucas argument about the implications of Gödel's incompleteness theorem for computational theories of human intelligence has been widely criticized by mathematicians, computer scientists and philosophers, and the consensus among experts in these fields seems to be that the argument fails, though different authors may choose different aspects of the argument to attack.

Nonetheless, there is often a preferred order ; in Latin, SOV is the most frequent outside of poetry, and in Finnish SVO is both the most frequent and obligatory when case marking fails to disambiguate argument roles.

" He noted how " The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered ", and how Paley's teleological argument had difficulties with the problem of evil.

: " The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection had been discovered.

This begs the question and the open-question argument thus fails.

Muhammad Iqbal also rejects the argument stating, “ Logically speaking, then, the movement from the finite to the infinite as embodied in the cosmological argument is quite illegitimate ; and the argument fails in total .” For Iqbal the concept of the first uncaused cause is absurd, he continues: " It is, however, obvious that a finite effect can give only a finite cause, or at most an infinite series of such causes.

Following the efforts of some figures of the National awakening of Bulgaria ( the most notable among them being Neofit Rilski and Ivan Bogorov ), there had been many attempts to codify a standard Bulgarian language ; however, there was much argument surrounding the choice of norms.

The U. S. argument was affirmed, however, by the dissenting opinion of ICJ member U. S. Judge Schwebel, who concluded that in supporting the contras, the U. S. acted lawfully in collective self-defence in El Salvador's support.

Around 4 July, Poisson declared Galois ' work " incomprehensible ", declaring that " argument is neither sufficiently clear nor sufficiently developed to allow us to judge its rigor "; however, the rejection report ends on an encouraging note: " We would then suggest that the author should publish the whole of his work in order to form a definitive opinion.

Not surprisingly, not everyone inclined to sceptical doubts found Moore's method of argument entirely convincing ; Moore, however, defends his argument on the grounds that sceptical arguments seem invariably to require an appeal to " philosophical intuitions " that we have considerably less reason to accept than we have for the common sense claims that they supposedly refute.

A value of US $ 195 million to the Honduran economy from assembly industries in 1991 — when the value of clothing exports was greater than that of coffee — was a compelling argument in favor of the shift, however.

Robert E. Kennedy explains however that this common argument of the mass emigration from Ireland being a " flight from famine " is not entirely correct.

Importantly, however, the fact that the negative argument of irreducible complexity is testable does not make testable the argument for ID.

The description that an initial false statement is a prelude to the making of more false statements is false ; however, even one false premise will suffice to disprove an argument.

Singer comments that defenders of abortion attack the second premise, suggesting that the fetus becomes a " human " or " alive " at some point after conception ; however, Singer finds this argument flawed in that that human development is a gradual process, and it is nearly impossible to mark a particular moment in time as the moment at which human life begins.

This matter is however very hard to distinguish from a cultural bias, which is a common argument for " ordinary " media too.

Harvey's argument has gained considerable support ; however, this view has been disputed by other historians, most notably John Gillingham.

He did not, however, make a formal argument for the existence of God ; rather, God's existence is already presumed and Augustine is giving a proposed view of God's teleology.

Philo is not satisfied with the teleological argument, however.

To fully solve any of the paradoxes, however, one needs to show what is wrong with the argument, not just the conclusions.

Lingard's strength of argument, however, continued to be popular, and the influence of Protestant animosity for Catholic apologetic also led him to develop a keen critical judgement.

The premise of the argument is that if God existed ( and wanted humanity to know it ), he would have brought about a situation in which every reasonable person believed in him ; however, there are reasonable unbelievers, and therefore, this weighs against God's existence.

Wolfgang Grape has challenged the consensus that the embroidery is Anglo-Saxon, distinguishing between Anglo-Saxon and other Northern European techniques ; however, textile authority Elizabeth Coatsworth refutes this argument.

Regarding the argument of implausibility of Muslims fabricating the story, Shahab Ahmed in the Encyclopedia of the Qur ' an states that " the widespread acceptance of the incident by early Muslims suggests, however, that they did not view the incident as inauspicious and that they would presumably not have, on this basis at least, been adverse to inventing it.

This argument, however, was not widely discussed until the late 1970s, when it was revived, principally by Michael Warren and Gary Taylor.

Shroeder's argument, however, was never fully accepted.

The debate over citizenship, however, extends beyond just the argument between Creon and Antigone.

Edward III of England argued, however, that although the Salic law should forbid inheritance by a woman, it did not forbid inheritance through a female line – under this argument, Edward should have inherited the throne, and formed the basis of his claim during the ensuing Hundred Years War ( 1337 – 1453 ).

In order to be considered a proof, however, the argument must be rigorous enough ; a vague or incomplete argument is not a proof.