But, like any legal system, the Security Council cannot sustain such extraneous arguments and must focus on the case before it, and despite Annan's past talk of supporting "humanitarian intervention" to bring dangerous tyrants to heel, he has carefully avoided making such a case against Saddam.
They've done it by muddying up the otherwise crystalline waters with irrelevant points and extraneous arguments; they've done it by making the legacy of the State of California v. Roman Raymond Polanski about the supposed vagaries inherent in rape cases -- instead of about the simple, irrefutable fact that faced with an outcome he didn't like, Polanski ran.
He rarely allows the machinery of plot to distract him from the tangents of talk, and the first part of "Blue" is preoccupied with what seem to be extraneous, trivial arguments and conversations.
Siegel and Biro (1992 , 1995 hold an epistemic account of fallacies, contrasting their view with dialectical/rhetorical approaches, because matters extraneous to arguments, such as being a practice that leads to false beliefs or not being persuasive, are not in their view a sufficient condition to make an argument a fallacy.
His archival zeal, however, outstrips his synthetic abilities; much of the detail seems extraneous and the argument itself is somewhat familiar.
We could discuss the properties of sentence connectives in terms of such quantified languages (in which open as well as closed sentences can be their arguments) but to avoid extraneous complications prefer the setting of the propositional languages with which we began.
There may be extraneous details that complicate a story, without necessarily contradicting its main argument.
Few would refute the power and truth behind Foxman's argument in "Never Again?" but much of it seems extraneous to an understanding of the new anti-Semitism.
The argument here acknowledges the consequences of geo-political dominance for knowledge dissemination but shows that concepts drawn from extraneous knowledge systems may both challenge and also be integrated into mainstream social and cultural theories, in order to enhance their competence by directly addressing prevailing assumptions and approaches.
The effort is extraneous.
