Sentence examples for a type of argument from inspiring English sources

Under intense questioning by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor and David H. Souter, Mr. Levine conceded that a legal services lawyer could not make a type of argument that is the bread and butter of administrative law: that a regulation should be interpreted in a certain way because, interpreted another way, it might well be unconstitutional.

He said that it was an argument by way of reduction to the absurd — and, since this is Scalia, he did so with a note of something between sarcasm, condescension, and stubbornness: "It's a type of argument that I thought you would have known….

(a) Type of argument: only scientific papers were included.

A sketch of a type of argument used by Forbes is this.

The reduced referential specificity signals a type of argument demotion and decreased valence since the impersonal Experiencer is morphologically fixed, semantically bleached, and syntactically non-modifiable22.

The best candidate for the cosmic ordering power is God, according to Whitehead (Whitehead 1997, 104)—this is a type of design argument.

But there is a third type of argument: we have the woodland only because previous generations passed it on to us and we have a similar obligation to pass it on to future generations.

A second type of argument for ethical relativism is due to the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711 76), who claimed that moral beliefs are based on "sentiment," or emotion, rather than on reason.

A second type of argument for expected utility theory relies on so-called representation theorems.

A second type of argument used against atomism involved showing that that the notion of conceptually minimal parts was philosophically and scientifically wanting (e.g., Avicenna 1983, III.4, 189 190).

Note that a similar type of argument can be made for the number of exons.