Sentence examples for argument to that effect from inspiring English sources

Martin Wolf makes an argument to that effect here, when he writes:Fortunately, the news is good.

Paul Teller, "Conditionalization and observation", Synthese 26(1973)218-258, reports--and attributes to David Lewis--a general argument to that effect which Lewis had devised as a reconstruction of what Putnam must have had in mind.

The first argument to that effect was given by Michael Huemer (1997).

Plato eventually seeks to show that someone with a healthy, harmonious soul wouldn't lie, kill, or steal, but most commentators consider his argument to that effect to be highly deficient.

That is to say, if a realist wants to claim that our prima facie commitment to fictional entities is justified, she has to provide a genuine ontological argument to that effect.

If this is the kind of belief that the Skeptic can have, then it can't be a belief held as a matter of assembling reasons on either side, but must instead be a belief that he has on the basis of his multiple experiences of coming to suspension of judgment, rather than on the basis of having a philosophical argument to that effect (Frede 1984: 138 9).

Some externalists have even offered independent arguments to that effect (Putnam 1981).

In fact there is good reason to suppose that arguments to that effect may be more important politically that slave based arguments for black reparations.

From there he constructs an a priori argument to the effect that it is impossible that suspense occur when the outcomes are known.

It is notable, however, that this comparison is made in the course of an argument to the effect that the representations in the brain that cause our perceptual and imaginative experiences need not actually resemble their objects: the resemblance between an engraving and what it depicts is, after all, very partial and imperfect.

Then, in the Sixth Meditation, having established, to his satisfaction, the mark of truth, he used that mark to frame a positive argument to the effect that the essence of mind is thought and that a thinking thing is unextended; and that the essence of matter is extension and that extended things cannot think (7:78).