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 ".

In fact, Fichte achieved fame for originating the argument that consciousness is not grounded in anything outside of itself.

The argument that the textures achieved with CGI cannot match the way real textures are captured by stop motion also makes it valuable for a handful of movie makers, notably Tim Burton, whose puppet-animated film Corpse Bride was released in 2005.

An argument for the conflict between religion and science that combines the historical and philosophical approaches has been presented by Neil Degrasse Tyson — Tyson argues that religious scientists, such as Isaac Newton, could have achieved more had they not accepted religious answers to unresolved scientific issues.

Huygens achieved note for his argument that light consists of waves, now known as the Huygens – Fresnel principle, which two centuries later became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality.

Daniel has been suggested as a possible author of the anonymous play The Maid's Metamorphosis ( 1600 ), though no consensus on the argument has been achieved.

The removal of the argument order restriction, and the ability to leave some values unspecified, can be achieved by passing a record or associative array.

It disagrees with Friedrich List ’ s argument which states that economies which rely on exports of raw materials may get “ locked in ”, and would not be able to diversify, regarding this Rostow ’ s model states that economies may need to depend on raw material exports to finance the development of industrial sector which has not yet of achieved superior level of competitiveness in the early stages of take-off.

Following the Durkheimian quest for understanding social cohesion through the concept of solidarity, Mauss's argument is that solidarity is achieved through the social bonds created by gift exchange.

Nor would anyone feel that a conclusion was justified if it was achieved by any other means than the uncoerced force of the better argument.

The term generally refers to a broad philosophical tradition characterized by an emphasis on clarity and argument ( often achieved via modern formal logic and analysis of language ) and a respect for the natural sciences.

An altogether different argument challenged that since the Nazis destroyed massive sets of sensitive documents pertaining to the Holocaust upon the arrival of Soviet and Western Ally troops, no truly comprehensive, verifiable historical reconstruction could be achieved.

He achieved his first points in the 2005 United States Grand Prix under farcical circumstances as all but three teams pulled out due to an argument over tyre safety.

The validity of a claim to normative rightness depends upon the mutual understanding achieved by individuals in argument.

:" The argument in this chapter is not, therefore, that the Habsburgs failed utterly to do what other powers achieved so brilliantly.

However, another school of thought believes that his reluctance in sharing power with the Muslim League in the provinces after the 1937 elections with the argument that the Congress Party has achieved majority on its own may have precipitated matters towards partition.

When Hudson had finished, the `` town meeting '' broke down into a general, wordy argument.

In its most general form, the argument from moral normativity is:

The argument applies only to digital computers and does not apply to machines in general.

As a general trend, the modern slants on the cosmological argument, including the Kalam argument, tend to lean very strongly towards an in fieri argument.

This explanation may imply that IQ tests do not necessarily measure a general intelligence factor, especially not Raven's as often argued, but instead may measure different types of intelligence that are developed by different experiences ( this argument is against the notion of an underlying general intelligence, or g factor ).

The unification of two argument graphs is defined as the most general graph ( or the computation thereof ) that is consistent with ( i. e. contains all of the information in ) the inputs, if such a graph exists ; efficient unification algorithms are known.

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.

" Ludwig von Mises states that he relaid the general sociological and economic foundations of the liberal doctrine upon utilitarianism, rather than natural law, but R. A. Gonce argues that " the reality of the argument constituting his system overwhelms his denial.

For example, a common realist argument, arguably found in Plato, is that universals are required for certain general words to have meaning and for the sentences in which they occur to be true or false.

For the general argument, see no-communication theorem.

It is a particular kind of the more general form of argument known as reductio ad absurdum.

But perhaps his most significant contribution to subsequent rhetoric, and education in general, was his argument that orators learn not only about the specifics of their case ( the hypothesis ) but also about the general questions from which they were derived ( the theses ).

In a review of Full House, Richard Dawkins approved of Gould's general argument, but suggested that he saw evidence of a " tendency for lineages to improve cumulatively their adaptive fit to their particular way of life, by increasing the numbers of features which combine together in adaptive complexes.

He quoted the Bible in support of his argument, specifically the general principle that " thou shalt love thy neighbor.

The inference from this claim to the general statement that there exists unnecessary evil is inductive in nature and it is this inductive step that sets the evidential argument apart from the logical argument.

The regress argument ( also known as the diallelus ( Latin < Greek di allelon " through or by means of one another ")) is a problem in epistemology and, in general, a problem in any situation where a statement has to be justified.

The main thrust of his argument was that God's design of the whole creation could be seen in the general happiness, or well-being, that was evident in the physical and social order of things.

In the above argument we assumed that the surface totally absorbed the beam, in general light can be transmitted, reflected and / or absorbed.

One could argue that the argument is based on a non-sequitur fallacy since it may not have been capitalism itself that was the cause, but rather the little state authority, which would make it an argument for libertarianism or anarchism in general, ranging from anarcho-capitalism to anarcho-communism.