Expos courses are designed to meet our primary goal of teaching students the elements of academic argument shared by all the disciplines and of guiding their practice as they learn to embody those elements in their writing.
Mr. Frank has been laying out elements of this argument for some time in his obscure magazine, The Baffler, and in earlier books, including "Commodify Your Dissent (W. W. Norton, 1997).
Two important elements of the argument are how the facilities and clearinghouses that trade derivatives will be structured and who will be allowed to operate and participate in them.
The varying psychological responses of human beings are thus hypostatized and made into component properties or elements of nature an argument whose fallacy was exposed, among others, by Shankara.
In the more than fifty years that he edited "the paper," as he always called it, he raised the brow not just of American criticism — bringing elements of rigor, argument, and expansiveness to reviewing and reporting that remain intimidating to this day — but of American intellectual life.
1. Indeed, see Putnam (2012) for an explicit rejection of key elements of the argument as presented here.
Their logical account is, in fact, based on the 'pervasion' (Skt: vyāpti, Tib: khyab pa) relation among the elements of an argument.
In the end, I argue that to the degree that the book challenges us to reimagine our moral selves, it is a great success even in spite of any shortcomings in certain elements of the argument.
Two elements of an argument for moral reasoning being possible despite such disagreement — both Rawlsian — are already before us: the holism built into the ideal of reflective equilibrium and the notion of overlapping consensus (cf. Richardson 1994, Part V).
In fact, we may distinguish four separate elements of the argument: (1) Vasubandhu explains the Buddha's general practice of speaking words that are not technically true, but are beneficial to his listeners.
However, the most defensible elements of his argument to establish the fundamental principle of morality rest on a claim that will be unlikely to impress a true skeptic, that the autonomy of our wills is a presupposition of any practical point of view recognizable as such by us.
