In other words, the Knicks, who have thrived all season with unconventional lineups that emphasized ball handling, passing and shooting, conceded the argument of styles to the brutish Pacers.
and there are not inconsequential differences in methodology, patterns of arguments and styles of justification as well.
But a more important idea is that if Connectionism could be established as a real alternative to the Classical symbol manipulation approach (and not simply as providing implementations of Classical systems), it could help undercut a key argument of Chomsky-style Nativism.
Running through Schama's work is an argument about the importance of style to scholarship, and an attempt to make often arcane ideas speak to a modern audience.
Once we have decided to trust an author, we usually give him or her the benefit of the doubt on matters of fact just as on matters of style or argument.
During the council, the bishops fiercely debated the style of the texts; their arguments about style were inseparable from their arguments about content.
It is true that certain ambitions that some perfect being theologians have harbored — for example, to provide an a priori argument, in the style of Anselm's ontological argument, for the existence of an absolutely perfect being — would have to be abandoned if any divine perfection is exhibited at most contingently (Guleserian 1985).
He was a man of abundant gifts, Christopher: erudition, wit, argument, prose style, to say nothing of a titanium constitution that, until it betrayed him in the end, allowed him to write word-perfect essays while the rest of us were groaning from epic hangovers and reaching for the ibuprofen.
The Mama PhD blog on Insider HigherEd would seem to do that, too (although again there are lots of more traditional, argument-essay style posts).
