Sentence examples for direct objection from inspiring English sources

Whereas some authors claim that "all biology is now about molecules" [ 617], others strongly disagree with this position (for a direct objection to Epstein's point of view, see e.g. [ 618]).

The statement, signed by 61 scholars, directed its objections toward "fundamentalist, literalist and doctrinaire Christianity; a rapidly growing and uncompromising Muslim clericalism in the Middle East and Asia; the reassertion of orthodox authority by the Roman Catholic papal hierarchy; nationalist religious Judaism; and the reversion to obscurantist religions in Asia".

Saudi Arabia has probably the highest number of child marriages in the Middle East and yet there has been almost no international outrage or objection directed at the practice.

Socrates completes his refutation of the thesis that knowledge is perception by bringing a twelfth and final objection, directed against D1 itself rather than its Protagorean or Heracleitean interpretations.

The Framers had no objection to direct election per se.

Public pressure for education spending would be strong regardless of Proposition 98.Lastly, it is not clear that the most common objection to direct democracy really applies in California: that it encourages the tyranny of the majority.

He intervened at key moments during the American occupation, including a celebrated episode in 2004 when he called hundreds of thousands of supporters into the streets to demand direct elections over the objections of the American authorities.

The objection is directed at the motivation for P1 - not at P1 itself.

This objection is directed at convergence views, which are often ignored.

There are also the expected objections from direct reference theorists.[3] (Chalmers resists these attractions, finding Kripke's surrogate two-dimensionalism objectionable: Chalmers forthcoming-a, §5.7).

Both of the above objections to direct reference theories of indexicals can easily be modified to target theories that say that the contents of expressions containing indexicals, in contexts, are merely intensions, rather than structured contents.