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Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.
This has been used as an argument against the use of the axiom of choice.
The " epistemic argument " against Platonism has been made by Paul Benacerraf and Hartry Field.
Because these methods are diverse and use data from such different sources, the problem of integrating them into a coherent argument has been a long-term issue for archaeoastronomers.
In fact, due to the repetitious nature of some of phrases or intertextuality with Jeremiah, an argument has been put forth that the “ historical Jeremiah ” is hard to validate and should be abandoned.
The argument that the motion is absolute, not relative, is incomplete, as it limits the participants relevant to the experiment to only the pail and the water, a limitation that has not been established.
The use of Bayesian probabilities as the basis of Bayesian inference has been supported by several arguments, such as the Cox axioms, the Dutch book argument, arguments based on decision theory and de Finetti's theorem.
They regard a " crime malum in se " as inherently criminal ; whereas a " crime malum prohibitum " ( the argument goes ) counts as criminal only because the law has decreed it so.
David Cole writes that " the Chinese Room argument has probably been the most widely discussed philosophical argument in cognitive science to appear in the past 25 years ".
In light of the Big Bang theory, a stylized version of argument has emerged ( sometimes called the Kalam cosmological argument, the following form of which was created by Al-Gazali and then strongly supported by William Lane Craig ):
Aquinas's argument from contingency allows for the possibility of a Universe that has no beginning in time.
Caesar seems to be one of the first authors to distinguish the two groups, and he has a political motive for doing so ( it is an argument in favour of the Rhine border ).
Since the 1990s the term has been used ( interchangeably with " the Copernicus method ") for J. Richard Gott's Bayesian-inference-based prediction of duration of ongoing events, a generalized version of the Doomsday argument.
The Magna Carta, which has constitutional status in Canada, was occasionally called into service in legal argument.
This is similar to the argument that fire suppression in western United States has allowed Ponderosa Pine forests to become “ overstocked ”.
The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.
I am glad that he has been courageous enough and logical enough to admit that his argument, if pushed as far as it must go, if worth anything, would prove that men may have come from the Ourang-Outang.
Stevenson has identified persuasive definition as a form of stipulative definition which purports to describe the " true " or " commonly accepted " meaning of a term, while in reality stipulating an altered use, perhaps as an argument for some specific view.
However, this argument has been described as an example of the fallacy of a statistical confounding effect ; it is now known that a herpesvirus, potentiated by HIV, is responsible for AIDS-associated KS.
This argument has not been universally accepted.
*" The first argument ," writes Rachels, " has several variations, each suggesting the same general point:
Ethical naturalism has been criticized most prominently by ethical non-naturalist G. E. Moore, who formulated the open-question argument.
However, this argument may be inverted by realists in arguing that since the sentence " Socrates is wise " can be rewritten as " Socrates has wisdom ", this proves the existence of a hidden referent for " wise ".

argument and been
My argument is that there was no Saxon Shore prior to that time even though the forts had been in existence since the time of Carausius.
Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.
Added to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she wouldn't have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste.
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.
By simply denying that an efficient first cause is problematic, being easily explained as the creative action of an omnipotent God, medieval theologians re-purposed and enhanced Aristotle's argument, as if the intention had been to prove God's existence.
There have been a number of criticisms of the argument.
Edmund Gettier is remembered for his 1963 argument, which called into question the theory of knowledge that had been dominant among philosophers for thousands of years.
The use of tabernacle terminology in Hebrews has been used to date the epistle before the destruction of the temple, the idea being that knowing about the destruction of both Jerusalem and the temple would have influenced the development of the author's overall argument to include such evidence.
Another argument in favor of an early dating is that the author seems unfamiliar with the Eucharist ritual ( had the author been familiar, it would have served as a great example ).
Although not an IAU standard, the ephemeris time argument T < sub > eph </ sub > has been in use at that institution since the 1960s.

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It is not uncommon to hear someone say " He won that argument " or " I attacked every weak point in his argument ".
Sébillet replied in the preface to his translation of the Iphigenia of Euripides ; Guillaume des Autels, a Lyonnese poet, reproached du Bellay with ingratitude to his predecessors, and showed the weakness of his argument for imitation as opposed to translation in a digression in his Réplique aux furieuses defenses de Louis Meigret ( Lyons, 1550 ); Barthélemy Aneau, regent of the Collège de la Trinité at Lyons, attacked him in his Quintil Horatian ( Lyons, 1551 ), the authorship of which was commonly attributed to Charles Fontaine.
He attacked Enfantin violently, and, in a heated argument among them, he was struck down by apoplexy.
This occurred when the post ’ s gunsmith, Thomas J. Hubbard, attacked and killed the fort ’ s tailor in an argument over a young native girl.
Unsurprisingly, the argument is attacked on the grounds of the supremacy of internalism.
The party is often associated with wealth and has historically been attacked by the left for defending the country's richest, though this argument is rarely presented anymore.
The following night on Raw, Cena instigated an argument between R-Truth and Miz, which ultimately led to the team's dissolution as Miz attacked R-Truth with a Skull Crushing Finale onto the stage.
Finally, in UNITED STATES v. CORONADO BEACH CO. 255 U. S. ( 1921 ) The Court expressly rejected the Government's argument, holding that the patent proceedings were conclusive on this issue, and could not be collaterally attacked by the Government.
" The argument in A Brief Examination for the church's prerogative in establishing practices not expressly mandated in scripture is gleefully attacked as an open door to papistry and paganism: the mass, the pope, purgatory, and even the worship of Neptune are not expressly forbidden, but that does not make them permissible.
Styles, trying to impress his mentor, attacked Lethal, which led to an argument between him and Kazarian, who wanted to finish Lethal off himself.
An argument in a tavern — a familiar scenario — escalated into a protracted two-day battle in which local citizens armed with bows attacked the academic village, killing and maiming scores of scholars.
I pointed out with some justification, but certainly not as my basic argument, that the Mentor list was essential as part of the character and prestige of our company and an indispensable exhibit when our more daring fiction — by Faulkner, Farrell, and Caldwell — was attacked by the censors.
Digital evidence is often attacked for its authenticity due to the ease with which it can be modified, although courts are beginning to reject this argument without proof of tampering.
This reasoning was obviously overthrown by the assertion that the mind contained within itself the standard of truth and falsehood ; it was also attacked more generally by the argument that all such reasoning refutes itself, since it proceeds upon principles assumed to be true, and then concludes that there can be no certain ground for any assumption at all.
" Lucas summed up his argument by pointing to Oelrichs's unclaimed reward and that the chances of being attacked by a shark were " infinitely less than that of being struck by lightning and that there is practically no danger of an attack from a shark about our coasts.
In October 1898, he shot and killed a business rival named Salvatore Morello, according to Lupo in self-defense after Morello attacked him with a dagger during an argument in Lupo's store.

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