So the argument in (1 - 7) is actually a shell of a much longer argument that includes subarguments in favor of the basic premises and, hence, against the various alternatives to fictionalism.
If, for example, we have one syllogism from two premises A and B to a conclusion C, and we have another from the premises C and D to the conclusion E, then in some sense, the longer argument from premises A, B and D to conclusion E is a good one.
That, of course, is a longer term argument.
His aides say the proposals need to be seen part of his longer argument about intergenerational fairness.
If the two original arguments are formally valid, then so too is the longer argument from three premises.
The last time the court heard longer arguments in a politically charged case was in 1966, over the Voting Rights Act, a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement.
Social media can do the same, building arguments comment by comment, challenging, testing, reinforcing and circulating the longer arguments in blogs, essays and reports.
QUESTION FROM JEFF PARSONS: If you had the power to change one thing about the Court or how it operates, what it would be? (examples: grant more cases each term; permit longer arguments; release same-day audio; require Justice Thomas to ask at least one question per year; improve its website; …?) JEFFREY TOOBIN: I think it's a good website, www.supremecourtus.gov.supremecourtus.gov
The patience to follow longer arguments.
Yet Trump, in the White House meeting, dismissed argument after argument about a longer timetable to finish the mission in Syria.
