"Her basic argument in this election — it's become clear as time has gone on — is that you can't really change Washington," Mr. Obama said.
Nike's basic argument in its brief is that in its challenged statements, not only was it not directly proposing a commercial transaction, but it was engaging in a topical discussion of broad public interest for which its "status as a corporate speaker is immaterial".
The economist Tyler Cowen offered a fluid account of the same basic argument in a brief, important book with a long title: "The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better".
This solution rejects premise (2) of the basic argument in its full generality.
The basic argument in defense of the Humean theory, presented notably by Michael Smith (1994: 119 125), is that beliefs and desires are modally separable: it is at least conceivable, and according to Smith actual, that someone maintains the belief that they ought to do something while losing the associated desire, due to depression, say.
The basic argument in absence or weakness of local financial markets is that domestic firms are devastated by uneasy access to finance and thus are unable to take benefit of the variation of know-how that is disposable to them introduced by the foreign firms (Dosi and Soete 1983).
One final note that gives a Democratic surprise scenario a little more hope: we continue to win the basic argument in this race.
Friedman's basic argument in Foreign Policy was that from 1979 (the year of the Iranian revolution) to 2005, one could trace a clear correlation between oil prices and freedom.
Fourth (section 5), the chapter sets out the basic argument in favour of decriminalizing assisted death in the case of competent agents on the basis of the value ascribed by Canadian political and constitutional culture to the value of autonomy.
In a nation where the basic arguments are always in black and white, and the grey area, too complicated and woolly, is to be avoided, knee-jerk reactions to something as simple as a single, unqualified word are commonplace.
