Sentence examples for characterizes the argument from inspiring English sources

The only necessity that needs to be present is that which characterizes the argument form, "If p is true, and p implies q, then q is true," that is [p · (p ⊃ q)] ⊃ q, in which · symbolizes "and," and ⊃ means "implies"; and this is a formula that belongs to logic.

Using the word "rant" has become our way of invalidating opinions, it's our way of ignoring the issues we don't want to see hold power because the word automatically characterizes the argument as unimportant before you even read what the person had to say.

In a 2-to-1 opinion issued last September, that court characterized the argument that the penalty was not a tax as "wholly unpersuasive".

Or, as Ms. Kagan characterized the argument in her article, that regulation is permissible "on the ground that corporate wealth derives from privileges bestowed on corporations by the government".

To characterize the argument form more fully, however, is not possible without either taking a step towards a substantive theory of analogical reasoning or restricting attention to certain classes of analogical arguments.

It would be misleading to characterize the arguments of the Meditations as unfolding straightforwardly according to geometric method.

"In the past year the kinds of distortions and misstatements that characterize the arguments against the public policy that we have are even more troubling than they were before," said [Peter] Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor: Why it's So Hard to End Poverty in America.

Attempts to use rigid, binary, black or white, all or none approaches will only serve to recreate the bitter futility of similarly barren arguments that have characterized the debate over when life begins (and the attendant social and medical issue of abortion).

An Israeli official characterized the American argument this way: "The damage if he doesn't participate will be greater, because then Arafat will be portrayed as a poor victim, and this will make the Arab countries push positions to extremes at the summit".

This interplay of criticism and defence characterizes the Orthodox interpretation of the argument.

Prosecutors, in their own court papers, characterized the latest arguments as "akin to bombing the courthouse and then complaining that you did not receive your day in court".