Sentence examples for fatal argument from inspiring English sources

RP: Well, I have never seen a fatal argument against the Metaphysics of Quality.

It was the assumption that existence is a predicate that has, in the view of most subsequent philosophers, proved fatal to the argument.

The Fifth Republic was supposed to cure two fatal French weaknesses: abstract argument and desperate factionalism.

She said this "bizarre notion" would have been fatal to Gough's argument.

In a 95-page memorandum, prosecutors argued that the charges should stand because of the "fatal defect" of the argument to dismiss them.

But the hollowness of respectability — for decency under such circumstances is no more than respectability — was not what became apparent in the example afforded by Sergeant Anton Schmidt but, rather, the fatal flaw in the argument itself, which at first sounds so hopelessly plausible.

So, along with all these lost kids, I take this last but far from fatal bullet to my argument.

A fatal problem with transcendental arguments, however, is that they are vulnerable to objections based on denying the reality of what the theory purports to explain: the laws do claim authority, but perhaps that authority is merely apparent, simply unreal.

Among other things, as Salmon puts it, "irrelevancies [are] harmless in arguments but fatal in explanations" (1989, p. 102).

For there is an argument that the fatal disconnect is not with politicians and their parties but with politics itself.

Similarly trained, my colleagues didn't even raise a collective eyebrow at the enticing result, instead peppering me with a fusillade of counter-arguments and potential fatal flaws that I'd need to rule out.