These principles are self-evident, in part, because they are not amenable to direct argument or proof, for any such argument "will either take for granted the thing to be proved" or be "something not more evident" (EAP V.i: 361; for more discussion, see Cuneo 2004, 259 and Davis 2006, Ch. 6).
In the second place, the physicalist project is normally thought of as being amenable to philosophical argument, whereas it is completely unclear where philosophical argument would enter the naturalistic project.
The bulk in the middle are unsentimental, mildly suspicious but amenable to the argument that it is, on balance, worth making the system work as best it can.
Like TSA guards at the airport, workplace IT wardens are rarely amenable to rational argument.
I'm very amenable to the argument that we should not pick on the lowest common denominator in this debate, and I hope that my antipathy to high-capacity magazines and my worry about military-style arms being in public circulation can stand alongside these sentiments.
In the past few years, he has become more amenable to progressive arguments about gun control and global warming.
In any Cypriot political campaign, it does not pay to sound amenable to the arguments of those on the other side of the island.
"Mr Kerviel's statements, and the separation between these statements and the truth, inevitably made the appeals court amenable to the arguments of the prosecutor's office," he said.
The decision to try to move the case to the Supreme Court represents an effort to sidestep all the maneuvering, but Mr. Gore's lawyers acknowledge that they do not know if the high court will be as amenable to their arguments as it was earlier this month, when it allowed the hand counts to continue.
But he may have been more amenable to their arguments than he let on.
