Sentence examples for decisive objection from inspiring English sources

According to Stroll, this is a decisive objection against the skeptical position.

As for the view that morals can be founded on divine authority, the decisive objection was beautifully put by Bertrand Russell: "Theologians have always taught that God's decrees are good, and that this is not a mere tautology; it follows that goodness is logically independent of God's decrees".

This looks like a decisive objection to the coercion argument.

This proposal faces a simple and decisive objection.

Graham (1967, 14 15) takes this to be a decisive objection to Mencius's view.

Whether or not this poses a decisive objection pre-existence is an obscure matter.

Further, they insist that representationalism encounters decisive objections.

The imperativalists' account of obligation is also subject to decisive objections (Hart, 1994, pp. 26-78; and Hacker).

More problematic for the egalitarian approach, however, is that the Repugnant Conclusion can be derived from conditions to which an egalitarian has no decisive objections (Arrhenius 2009c; Tännsjö 2008).

But if introspection is thus fallible, then Sidgwick's failing to find a single feeling of pleasure, Ryle's finding it a behavioral disposition, and Feldman a pure propositional attitude like belief (§2.3.2) separable from having any feeling at all, are not decisive objections to pleasure feeling like something in particular.

Another upshot is that many considerations that are presented as powerful, even decisive, objections to biomedical enhancement aren't objections at all – they are really strong considerations in favour of biomedical enhancement, just in a different direction.