His services, according to news accounts, included helping his clients formulate arguments to get lawmakers to incorporate their interests in legislation.
When Stone talks about politics, formulating arguments that candidates can use, he tends to ramp his voice up to a snarl, the way that the message on Bernard Spitzer's answering machine sounded.
But what absurdism couldn't capture was the nature of the conversations our team had as we put the show together – about whose lives we had a right to depict, about the difficulty of formulating arguments against money and power.
Senior Home Office officials and police have met in a "gold group" to formulate arguments to the Treasury ahead of its decision about how much more each department should save.
For al-Ghazâlî, reason ('aql) is executed most purely and precisely by formulating arguments that are demonstrative and reach a level where their conclusions are beyond doubt.
In support of this understanding of the twentieth-century history, it is noteworthy how philosophers began to formulate arguments for physicalism from the 1950s onwards.
The neutral monists were much more interested in advertising and (to some extent) demonstrating these virtues than in (i) constructing arguments to the effect that neutral monism must be, or is, or probably is, or might be the true philosophy; and (ii) formulating arguments against all the competing views.
And it's unlikely that, in the quiet of your normal morning commute, you'll spontaneously formulate arguments for or against the existence of God, or on the meaning of life.
The discussions led to deeper understanding and better retention: 'You're not just learning the answers, you're problem-solving, formulating arguments to justify your position…the reasoning…means deeper learning…' [P2] Individuals were motivated to study and concentrate as they felt responsible for their team's performance.
Indeed, as we will see later on, arguments about qualia and consciousness are usually formulated as arguments for the conclusion that physicalism is false.
