Sentence examples for ancient argument from inspiring English sources

It is a lively contribution to an ancient argument of the faculties of Arts and Science.

I won't seek to defend this abbreviated version of the ancient argument, but it clearly shows that Leibniz was not the first to wonder why there is something rather than nothing.

His remarks not only directly refute the ancient argument that slavery was not the principal cause of the war; they showed that there is no longer political gain in pretending otherwise.Some people have lamented the relative public indifference to the anniversary this year, compared with 50 years ago.

Everton did not just get off to the best possible start, they got off to the best Cup final start ever, Louis Saha's goal after 25 seconds beating Roberto di Matteo's 43-second opener in 1997 and finally ­settling an ancient argument about a goal thought to have been scored between 30 and 40 seconds in 1895.

However, in the Dialogues Hume considers an ancient argument based on the existence of evil that is intended to establish this (negative) conclusion.

This is, of course, an ancient argument, dating back to Hamilton and Jefferson, but it is crystallized in the House budget in a way that one might view as the logical realization of the 2010 midterms, where a bunch of members were sent to DC to vastly shrink the role of government.

"I was ashamed," she says, "of reprinting columns with ancient arguments in them.

But Agrippa adds other criticisms of philosophy that suggest familiarity and some sympathy with ancient arguments against philosophical certitude.

These are ancient arguments on both ends; arguments that I as a California State University, L.A. graduate and one of the founders of the Black Student Union at the school in the late 1960s, am well familiar with.

Gadamer counters an ancient line of argument that regards art as secondary to, inferior to, and a corrupter of, the real.

To establish that atoms are the primary principles or elements of matter, Gassendi draws deeply on the well of ancient atomist argument.