Sentence examples for form of argument from inspiring English sources

Are such stories a good form of argument?

It seems clear, however, that from the logical point of view no special significance attaches to this form of argument.

On top of the exhibition's view of art as a continuing form of argument is a visceral reminder that art history's books are never closed.

"It's a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the 'reduction to the absurd," Justice Scalia responded, according to the Associated Press.

Exactly what this form of argument is supposed to be and what exemplifies it in the writings of these philosophers has been by no means clear.

Transcendental argument, in philosophy, a form of argument that is supposed to proceed from a fact to the necessary conditions of its possibility.

Grafton touts the French philosopher Pierre Bayle, whose "Historical and Critical Dictionary," published in the sixteen-nineties, sometimes used its explosion of footnotes as an intricate and sophisticated form of argument, as an early virtuoso of the form.

Hilbert's contribution was to bring together many different strands of contemporary work and to show how they could be elucidated if cast in the form of arguments about objects in certain infinite-dimensional vector spaces.

"I did not anticipate this form of arguments, as they are very strange, but I expected that this issue will go up the courts anyways".

Our new formalism draws on utility-based approaches and expresses the reasoning in the form of arguments and objections, to enable full integration with value-based practical reasoning.

A modern version of this idea still survives, in the form of the doctrine of the logical form of arguments and the modern preoccupation with logical constants (Read 1994; Dutilh Novaes 2012a; entry on logical constants of this encyclopedia).