Third, the arguments staged by KS in support of its assumption that lexical meaning should be regarded as having an internal structure turned out to be vulnerable to objections from proponents of an atomistic view of word meaning (Fodor & Lepore 1992).
The pair appear to be having an argument, on stage, in the middle of a gig.
I could take his argument a stage further by suggesting that the references by newspapers and broadcasters to these groups as IRA dissidents or, more usually, "dissident republicans", has had an insidious consequence.
It was a memorable Disrupt for me too — I had started working for TechCrunch the week before — and I distinctly remember an argument on stage between Samid and Fred Wilson over the BillGuard business model.
Exaggerating for the sake of the argument, late stage investments could even be conceived of as the only investments that are not made in such a favorable environment.
This paper develops this argument in stages.
It's even harder to imagine a U.S. president making a compelling argument for staging a nuclear showdown with Russia over, say, Estonia.
The argument of which stage or stages of NAFLD require diagnosis, attempting to distinguish NASH from simple steatosis, or fibrosis from NASH, and so forth may have a great impact on the choice of the optimal noninvasive markers.
Note that both O'Connor and Humphreys resist Kim's two-stage argument here at this first stage, since they deny that emergent properties will synchronically supervene.
