Is it not possible to enchant the hearts of young men by words poured through their ears, when they are still at a distance from the truth of facts, by exhibiting to them fictitious arguments, and making them think that they are true, and that the speaker is the wisest of men in all things?
A fictitious debate between incumbent Pres.
Since one of the fictitious chapters is called "The Argument from the New York Times" and another is "The Argument from Lucinda," it's clear or sort of clear that the narrative about Cass also raises questions about the role of faith.
Indeed, the argument was (mostly) fictitious.
Based on his earlier enunciation of "the motto of the good citizen"—"To obey punctually, to censure freely" (1977, 399)—Bentham conceived the POT as a "fictitious tribunal" or public court of opinion, argument, and debate.
Most law schools will also offer students the opportunity to get involved with mooting, whereby students get to develop their advocacy skills by presenting arguments as counsel on fictitious legal problems before a moot judge.
And to sweeten the pot of playful argument, we've laid our favorite fictitious commanders in chief alongside their real-life analogues.
The gist of the argument is that Tillerson's assurances to shareholders were fictitious, or at least greatly exaggerated.
They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people".
Through fashioning imprecise personas, often formed through stereotypes and as such both real and fictitious, she alludes to the omnipresent influence of race without ever declaring a straightforward argument or critique on the subject.
