Martin Wolf makes an argument to that effect here, when he writes:Fortunately, the news is good.
The first argument to that effect was given by Michael Huemer (1997).
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.
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.
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).
True, one hears arguments to the effect that the rules have changed, that this time is different.
HRW has released its correspondence with Tony Blair's office, in which it challenges him to discuss his strategy and pre-emptively dismisses arguments to the effect that quiet diplomacy is effective in places like Kazakhstan.
Nāgārjuna's arguments to the effect that mover and motion are interdependent, that the beginning and end of motion are not to be found "out there" in the world entail that the person who is reborn, the cyclic existence he is reborn in and the liberation from that cyclic existence do not exist substantially.
All such agreements are per se illegal under United States antitrust law; that is, the court will assume that any such agreement is anticompetitive and will not hear arguments to the effect that the agreement actually enhances quality, competition, or consumer welfare in a particular case.
