Sentence examples for argument on which from inspiring English sources

There is a healthy argument on which number is more valid, year-to-year or month-to-month.

The larger argument, on which the book is admirably staked, is that Calder is a major artist, kept from center stage by an art history unduly concerned with "advances" and inventions and directions.

Stern advances a conception of this kind of argument on which it addresses a skeptic who questions whether certain beliefs cohere with others in one's set, as opposed to a skeptic who questions whether certain beliefs are true (Stern 1999b).

For example, he may have given up his undefended claim that passions have no representative character, a premise of the Representation Argument on which, as we saw, some of his fundamental anti-rationalist arguments depend.

De Toqueville's statement encapsulates, very briefly, the crucial point of the argument on which high salience of the local-urban dimension is based for the theorists of the idealistic kind of democracy, and envisages the following logical steps.

The reasoning for this seems to have been to prevent states from relying on peace agreements to escape international responsibility for wrongful acts (an argument on which Uganda was relying in the case) (Lang 2008, 109).

With respect to the first argument, some scholars (such as Lewis (1979)) claim that the argument is invalid, some (such as Peterson (1981)) that there are two different valid ways of reconstructing it, others (such as Yi and Bae (1998), and Rickless (2007, 86 90)) that there is a single way to reconstruct the argument, one on which it comes out valid.

Presumably, it should, but none of the above positions offer arguments on which one could base such a claim.

Otherwise she cares little for the frames and arguments on which the big histories of big subjects usually thrive.

They are, all of them, central to the arguments on which the candidates have staked their fortunes.

Within minutes of the ruling, Knox issued a statement condemning the arguments on which it appeared to be based as "unfounded and unfair".