Sentence examples for closure arguments from inspiring English sources

Therefore, roughness-induced crack closure arguments have been introduced to discuss data obtained under different testing conditions (parent material/joint, R-ratio, crack location, crack growth regime).

8. Leibniz's "pre-established harmony" similarly evades the causal closure argument for physicalism by denying that mental states have physical effects.

Plugging this into the causal closure argument for physicalism, we can conclude that there can be no metaphysically independent non-physical causes (such as Cartesian dualist mental causes) for effects that already have full physical causes.

And at this point the causal closure argument will bite once more, to show that a non-natural intuitive faculty would inevitably commit us to the absurdity of strong overdetermination.[13] In the face of this kind of difficulty, most contemporary moral philosophers have turned away from moral non-naturalism and opted for some species of naturalist view.

(10) and (11) by a standard closure argument: we Taylor expand the propensities and truncate at first-order [ 19].

And perhaps more importantly still, because it's a point that is difficult to dispute, as well as one that can bring closure to an argument, we often miss the opportunity to challenge those who may use it to mask viperous anti-immigration sentiments.

PHP 5.3 added support for closures, which are true anonymous, first-class functions, whose syntax can be seen in the following example: In the example above, getAdder function creates a closure using passed argument $x (the keyword use imports a variable from the lexical context), which takes an additional argument $y, and returns the created closure to the caller.

The Argument from Causal Closure is perhaps the dominant argument for physicalism in the literature today.

Lamacq claimed the arguments for closure "don't all stack up".

A Pao-like spectral closure based on physical arguments is used to scale this numerical viscosity a priori.

If one regards the problem of free will as especially pressing one may be drawn to this second line of reply against the argument from causal closure (one panpsychist who takes this line is Griffin 1998).