And it's not anywhere related to being a rational argument.
"There is a rational argument to say that somewhere between $60 to $90 a barrel is the right sort of level," he said.
There is a rational argument to be made that the lover is really not her husband, for what is a Pinter play without guesswork and a multiplicity of interpretations?
And the Wall Street Journal thinks this was such a great analysis that it quotes the phrase, and argues at some length — or, actually, asserts, since if there's a rational argument there I can't find it — that the only possible reason people might want Yellen to succeed Bernanke is that she's not just a monetary dove but a woman.
Whatever the outcome of this week's historic Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage, one thing has become crystal clear: there is no longer, if there ever was, a rational argument to ban it.
The benefits of the presence of the pyrE locus are such, that there is a rational argument for using pyrE mutant hosts, and their cognate ACE correction vectors (e.g., pMTL-ME6, pMTL-ME6C and pMTL-ME6X), with any particular mutagen, including the ClosTron and any of the available negative selection markers [ 18– 23].
There's also a rational argument to be made that Republicans in Congress haven't been trying to help the economy at all under President Obama.
Fiona Scott Morton, an economics professor at Yale who has written extensively on car dealers, told me, "There isn't a rational argument for why a new company should have to use dealers.
The suggestion, then, is that Arcesilaus' beliefs in the importance of knowledge and the inadequacy of mere opinion are explicitly non-rational, in the sense that he is not persuaded that they are warranted by a rational argument or theory, or even by the extensive argument he has devoted his life to.
