Sentence examples for distinctive argument from inspiring English sources

But Labour does have a distinctive argument about social justice that could persuade others, if only it would spell it out.

Temporal parts accounts of vague persistence are defended by Sider (2001, section 4.9) (Sider presents a distinctive argument which will be discussed in section 8) and Heller (2000); these are criticised by Lowe (2005).

In addition, one might endorse haecceitism, not on the strength of any distinctive argument, but by a more general appeal to modal intuition, according to which haecceitistic differences simply seem possible.

Cordemoy is also known for a rather distinctive argument for why bodies are not real causes, one that employs the controversial premise that the motion of a body can be continued only by the causal agent that initiated it (Discernement 135 36; cf. Nadler 2005, 42).

(iv) The "distinctive function" argument is inherently unsatisfying in ways that could hardly have failed to be apparent to so able a philosopher as Aquinas.

(ii) The "distinctive function" argument is not prominent or adduced as fundamental (or at all) in Aquinas' more free-standing treatments of morality.

The more the remit, the less revenue for the chancellor: the more contribution to the exchequer, the less remit to be distinctive goes the argument.

Another way is to observe a distinctive pattern of argument employed, in which the hypothesis that a certain type of substance, quality, etc. exists is supported on the ground that it explains some feature of our linguistic practice (for example, the argument that space exists as it explains our use of directional terms).

The features discussed above therefore have a reasonable claim to be what make transcendental arguments distinctive, at least of the sort we have considered so far.

What is distinctive in Dorling's argument can be found in one of the clearer graphs included in the book, an image of "The value of property in Britain by urban area, 2012", where a wildly bloated London dwarfs the rest of the country, whose towns and cities resemble planets orbiting the sun.

What does render him quite distinctive, however, is the argument he gives, namely that it produces the maximum enjoyment.