Sentence examples for famous argument from inspiring English sources

"The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics" (1851), a famous argument for laissez-faire, Holmes wrote.

Flannery traces that notion far beyond the scope of Frederick Jackson Turner's famous argument in "The Frontier in American History".

Cannadine does not say so, but he may well have written his book in response to Samuel Huntington's famous argument about the clash of civilizations.

FOOTNOTE [1] As many readers will recognize, this thought experiment is a modification of a very famous argument of political philosopher John Rawls.

Americans might go bowling alone, to paraphrase Robert Putnam's famous argument about the atomised nature of modern American life, but when they go home they surf together.

In a famous argument, known as the antinomy of the continuum, Kant tried to prove that the acceptance of the reality of spatial extension, the cornerstone of atomism, led to contradictions.

These famous arguments underwent some revision over time.

"And the steps appear in countless photographs commemorating famous arguments or other moments of historical importance".

It is a variation of Pascal's wager — one of the most famous arguments in the philosophy of religion.

In one of the most famous arguments of postwar philosophy of language, Saul Kripke addressed a question that had long preoccupied philosophers: how do names refer to people or things?

There are also some very famous arguments against the immanent realist view of properties and relations.