Sentence examples for consequence arguments from inspiring English sources

As a consequence, arguments about the chronology of the first use of florfenicol may have limited relevance.

This argument, first developed by Carl Ginet, came to be known as the Consequence Argument (Ginet, 1966).

And the Consequence Argument provides powerful support for this argument's second premise.

It is fair to say that the Consequence Argument earned the incompatibilists the dialectical advantage.

For an excellent assessment of these compatibilist replies to the consequence argument, see Fischer 1994.

Let us first consider three different compatibilist attempts to unseat the Consequence Argument.

This premise, supported as it is by the Consequence Argument and near cousins of the Consequence Argument (see section 4.1), will demand of Wolf that, minimally, she show what is wrong with arguments like the Consequence Argument, and optimally, that she offer some positive compatibilist account of the ability to do otherwise.

Michael Slote (1982) attempted to refute the Consequence Argument by showing that the inference principle upon which the argument relies is invalid.

These beliefs — about the laws and the past — are the basis of the most influential contemporary argument for incompatibilism: the Consequence argument.

The Consequence argument is an attempt to provide an argument in defense of the incompatibilist's way of understanding these common sense beliefs.

Suppose that one compatibilist reply or another proves that the Consequence Argument is unsound.[20] This alone would not amount to a positive argument for compatibilism.