This position was the point of departure for a critique, often conducted with very subtle argument, of the ideas of such dogmatic theologians as al-Ashʿarī or Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī, such philosophers as Avicenna and Averroës, or such mystics as Ibn al-ʿArabī.
The argument, debate and presentation of ideas in the run-up to the elections are just as important as the vote itself.
Politics, in its rawest form, should be about winning an argument, a battle of ideas – not an underhand attempt to strip your opponents of their weaponry.
No. That's not what I tend to find interesting – I enjoy the process, and the argument, and the flow of ideas of an interview, I don't think there's a "perfect question", much less a "perfect answer that I wish somebody had asked me the question for".
But what his ruling does is deprive the N.S.A. of the argument of obviousness: the idea that what it is doing is plainly legal, plainly necessary, and nothing for decent people to worry about.
In addition to burden of proof arguments against the Way of Ideas and the representational theory of perception, Reid also deploys a number of detailed arguments against specific components of these theories and against commitments they presuppose to be true.
Albeit quite inspiring, the current scenario is characterized by a wide variety of ideas, arguments, and visions.
The fact is the U.S. needs to make clear that we in the West are on the side of ideas, arguments, multiple views and faiths flourishing symbiotically, as has happened in the Muslim world in the past.
For instance, the metaphors we use for argument are closely linked to war or struggle – but what effect might it have on politics if, say, we thought of arguments as the sharing of ideas?
Thus Suarez-Kurtz builds his arguments through a conjunction of ideas about the history of the country, 'mixed blood', science and nation building, which are articulated with recent knowledge from the field of pharmacogenomics.
