Using the briefest of quotable snippets from each, the documentary builds a crude argument that the global financial meltdown was a conscious "inside job" caused by greedy, ruthless, mendacious, out-of-control bankers.
At one extreme we might suppose that Alcmaeon only developed the crude argument from analogy, which Aristotle assigns to him (De An. 405a29).
The trouble with this crude argument is once again in the definition of "miracle," which here goes beyond a mere violation concept in adding immutability, which generates the contradiction.
This is, however, much too crude an argument to carry any weight, since it turns on a simple ambiguity between all testimony and some testimony.
First, at the level of pure campaign politics, it sounds uncomfortably close to crude conservative arguments in which Republicans suggest that Democrats buy the support of black and minority voters with "gifts" (cf, Mitt Romney's post-election analysis of his defeat by Barack Obama).
The facts speak for themselves; the adjectives and the sarcasm have the counterintuitive effect of cheapening them, of imposing on the world a disappointingly crude and simplistic argument.
The machine is marked by its intensity, heterogeneous composition, and its odd syntax, in which annotations are made with crude graphics, and arguments are made in the raw language of Internet forums.
It is there in the crudest, most basic argument offered for Israel's right to exist: that after the murder of six million, Jews need a safe haven that they can call their own.
His argument was crude, even childish; he dodged specific questions, and at times came close to talking gibberish.
And their argument is crude but true: be nice to our goods, and so boost our economies or, law or no law, you will find our job-seekers coming instead.
Amidst this argument against crude naturalism, Hume inserts a footnote in the 1754 edition, wherein he writes: "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to whites.
