The confrontation has laid bare Turkish arguments over the country's identity and its future, and shaken the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been a lightning rod for most of the protesters' complaints.
Some premises in this bare-bones argument are in obvious need of support, like the modal intuition that P and C could have existed each in the absence of the other.
The span of plausible scenarios in which a given party could pull off a presidential win also lays bare ongoing arguments within Democratic and Republican ranks about their parties' futures.
After some grumbling about "Communism," an offscreen teabagger yelled, "No more handouts!" This was not the only Tea Party protest where opponents of health care reform forced comparisons to Communism or sounded like lunatics, but the Dispatch video lays bare a primary argument of the Tea Party protesters: America's 45 million uninsured aren't their problem.
The blurb for the book states, somewhat audaciously, that it is "a fresh, new interpretation of The Federalist Papers, the 18th-century collection of political essays that defined and shaped our Constitution and laid bare the 'original argument' between states' rights and big federal government--a debate as relevant and urgent today as it was at the birth of our nation".
The fact that, in the absence of non-trivial individual essences, a transworld identity characterization of de re modal statements appears to generate bare identities (via arguments such as Chisholm's Paradox or Forbes's reduplication argument) may produce a variety of reactions.
Gore attempted to promote the idea at the Convocation of Clergy in May 1918; Henson abandoned restraint and in Chadwick's words "stripped Gore's arguments bare".
The viability of this argument, stripped here to its bare bones, need not engage us.
But the argument over bare counties is only part of the story.
She remembers the lively arguments about bare necessities: "The women all said sugar was a luxury, all the men said it was a necessity".
