Sentence examples for conclusive argument from inspiring English sources

Given that thought experiments along these lines have been popular in contemporary philosophy of mind it might seem natural to suppose that Leibniz takes the thought experiment to provide a conclusive argument for his conclusion (it is sometimes referred to as "Leibniz's Mill Argument").

To state this fact is to make the most conclusive argument in favor of the civilian candidate.

It is therefore impossible to find a conclusive argument against the suggestion of Foucault that history, like the human subject, will prove to be a transitory conception.

This is not a conclusive argument for waiting-in the meantime, other equally important things, well understood at the moment, may be forgotten-but it is a major hazard of the genre.

Perhaps the most conclusive argument for the sub's indispensability comes in the first response to Greenslade's blog: "Roy: I subbed the column you used to write for MediaGuardian enough times to realise just how much you need subeditors".

The fact that both the great political parties of the country, in declaring their principles prior to the election, gave a prominent place to the subject of reform of our civil service, recognizing and strongly urging its necessity, in terms almost identical in their specific import with those I have here employed, must be accepted as a conclusive argument in behalf of these measures.

(In this respect, they differed from philosophers such as Avicenna and Averroes who had followed Aristotle and Plato in citing "conclusive" arguments for the existence of God).

If Mr Darling succeeded in challenging a swaggering populist where Mr Clegg failed, it was because he successfully pursued the question "so what?" Like Mr Farage, Scotland's first minister is prone to parroting bugbears as if they were conclusive arguments.

Certainly, a more detailed study of the surface is needed to make any conclusive arguments concerning the existence of a bilayer structure.

Thus, the simulation results should have a 95%% confidence of the estimated mean (shed-load) within 5%% of the true mean for conclusive arguments.

McMullin (2009), on the other hand, does not include simplicity because the notion is ambiguous, and because there are no conclusive arguments that simpler theories are more likely to be true, or empirically adequate.