One pro-democracy lawmaker, who goes by the name Long Hair, is better known for his demonstrative tactics than for the cogency of his arguments.
Tim Montgomerie is the editor of ConservativeHome.com This was a spectacular performance, remarkable for the cogency and fluidity of delivery.
For all the talk of Mr. Sherman's interpretive eccentricities, his reading of the "Transcendental Etudes" is striking for its cogency and directness.
In any case, it is not clear that Field's metaphysical stance requires a full execution of his nominalizing programme, as opposed to a case for its cogency: difficulties in constructing nominalist theories can always be attributed to limitations of human ingenuity rather than the reality of abstract mathematical objects (Leng 2013).
Raz's conception of authority depends for its cogency on the thought that as long as the subject does better by reason overall by obeying certain classes of commands, the subject has a duty to obey every one of the commands: the correct as well as the incorrect.
Given that it purports to escape from the traps of traditional reductionism by scrapping hierarchical models of nature and the corresponding layered models of scientific theory thereby rendering traditional antireductionist critiques meaningless, systems biology would be an ideal testing ground for its cogency.
Peter Eotvos's "zeroPoints" and Ms. Neuwirth's "Clinamen/Nodus," works commissioned for these birthday tours, are stronger for their explorations of tremulous colors and sounds than for their motivic cogency and rhythmic sway.
The production may lack cogency for the English-speaking viewer, but no matter, because there is a transparent honesty about it.
Integrationists read the relevance of the sociologists' accounts as supporting new accounts of rationality or objectivity, rather than as grounds for rejecting the cogency of such normative ideals.
The metaphysical worldview that once supported the sacred canopy may have lost much of its cogency for the modern mind, along with the arguments of medieval scholastics that sailors cannot kiss their wives goodbye on Sundays, or hangmen go to heaven, but the dualisms associated with that worldview have continued to haunt the philosophical imagination.
