Sentence examples for direct argument against from inspiring English sources

A more direct argument against D1 is eventually given at 184 7.

The most direct argument against the possibility that values are incommensurable is based on value monism (e.g., Mill 1979 and Sidgwick 1981).

Although essentialism provides no direct argument against haecceitism, hyperessentialism and other strong versions of essentialism do preclude certain kinds of haecceitistic differences where individuals "swap" qualitative roles.

This leads to a direct argument against many forms of internalism: that they undergenerate reasons, by providing negative verdicts in cases in which intuitively there really are reasons.

A more direct argument against the Fed as a systemic regulator is that regulation should be accompanied by a process to allow the orderly failure or restructuring of systemically important but insolvent firms.

(For discussion of sufficiency principles, see McKay (1986) and Robertson (1998).) As just noted, no familiar version of essentialism provides a direct argument against absolutely all haecceitistic differences, although strong versions of essentialism will limit the range of admissible haecceitistic differences.

But Mr. Hotle cautioned that in Wyoming, where guns are like cars — just about everybody has one — direct arguments against them simply will not work.

Darwin himself, of course, avoided arguments with politicians and other public types as best he could, writing once that "direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science".

He wrote to Aveling: "It appears to me... that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

For as Darwin put it: "Though I am a strong advocate for free thought on all subjects, yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science".

In the end, we would do well to remember the wisdom of Charles Darwin: "It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity & theism produce hardly any effect on the public; & freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follow[s] from the advance of science.