Sentence examples for discourse argument from inspiring English sources

Hence, conceivability does not in all cases and especially not in cases of mere ignorance, as in the Second Meditation yield metaphysical possibility (as we have seen in the Discourse argument for the mind body distinction).

Daniel Frank (2003, 144 5) argues against this view that Maimonides "may best be understood philosophically as engaged in critical dialogue with Aristotle, almost invariably disagreeing with him, but indebted to Aristotle for his mode of discourse, argument forms, and philosophical vocabulary".

Human rights has always been used as a discourse to criticize countries, opponents, organizations, competitors even, when you don't have any other argument, because you know that the human rights argument is mainly a discourse argument, not an evidence argument.

Hunts, feasts, battles, storms, and landscapes were described with a brilliant concretion of detail rarely paralleled since, while the abler poets also contrived subtle modulations of the staple verse-paragraph to accommodate dialogue, discourse, and argument.

There is humour as well as sensuality in this prose, which distinguishes it from typical pornographic discourse – an argument I don't recall Nabokov himself using in self-defence.

Forest Ecosystems intends to provide what other journals are offering readers and authors: a place of research reporting and public discourse where argument and evidence can be tested.

In the bioethics literature, bioethical discourse and arguments have been most prominent and intense concerning research involving human participants.

As Amartya Sen points out in his book The Argumentative Indian, there is a long, deep tradition in the country's discourse, of encouraging argument from all comers.

The present study investigates the use of mitigation and indirectness in argument discourse produced in an institutional setting by Spanish learners (L2).

It immediately garnered vehement censure and counter-argument from scholar-monks of traditional schools, attesting to the impact Hōnen's nembutsu teaching was already having in Japanese society, but also to the recognition of the forms of scholastic discourse and rational argument into which his thought had been cast.

A relatively moderate point is that it is often so hard to make out on what side of the literal/fictional distinction some discourse falls that arguments of the Quinean kind seldom are well supported.