The phrase "arguments that were supposed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing expectations or intentions regarding certain arguments or claims that were anticipated to be made or presented.
Example: "The arguments that were supposed to support the theory were not convincing enough to sway the audience."
Alternatives: "arguments that were intended" or "arguments that were meant".
Claims of success by the U.S. military have undercut precisely the antiwar arguments that were supposed to be the most effective in political terms -- harping on the American death toll and the inability of the occupying troops to make demonstrable progress at subduing Iraqi resistance and bending the country's parliament to Washington's will.
The high school student who declined to share his real name in an article that might portray him as an angry virgin had long struggled to date women, and the clip had the opposite of its intended effect: he actually found himself agreeing with arguments that were supposed to make him cringe.
This book is largely a reconsideration of the arguments that are supposed to ground this consensus.
What comes next is one of those libertarian environmental arguments that's supposed to sound brilliantly counterintuitive, while actually displaying an appalling moral blindness to the problem at issue: We can keep the elephants alive only by keeping alive the demand for ivory, since that alone is what gives elephants their value.
The knowledge argument is often cited as one of those anti-physicalist qualia-based arguments that are supposed to justify property dualism.
Transcendental argument, in philosophy, a form of argument that is supposed to proceed from a fact to the necessary conditions of its possibility.
1. Chalmers offers a further argument that is supposed to make use only of the diagonal intension, ignoring the horizontal intension: there is no need to elaborate here.
Finally - and perhaps most importantly - recall that a year ago, the argument that was supposed to be trumping inside Washington for bombing the Syrian government was that it was necessary to "confront Iran".
His complaint is that secularists have used laws that were supposed to separate church and state to promote their own atheistic ideas.That is a long-standing argument.
A few students explained their increasing acceptance of evolution by pointing out that they had found flaws with their previous religious beliefs about evolution, including this student's comment about "Intelligent Design": The most compelling argument for me is how many things that are supposed to be "intelligently designed" still have flaws.
But if that is so, it is mistaken to suppose that the knowledge argument gives one any reason to endorse anti-physicalism if that is supposed to be a position compatible with methodological naturalism.
