As long as a belief had "cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance" it should be protected, a judge ruled.In this section Still up in the air Steaming ahead Mutual assured destruction Merry whatever Good news for Santa Written in the stones ReprintsBelievers in many things have taken note.
Still, the underlying reasons for it have some cogency.
Since baseball season is in third gear, some of the A.P.'s tips for covering the diamond have a certain cogency.
As a matter of morale or effective defense, the move appeared to have all the cogency of the paper tigers that Chinese generals used to hang on city walls to frighten attacking forces.
Any account of cognitive value that doesn't deliver cogency would seem to be somewhat problematic.
Historians have argued, with some cogency, that its inhabitants would have had a better chance of living in peace had it been incorporated into a Greater Syria, when the Ottoman empire collapsed at the end of the first world war.
Gardeners, meanwhile, can think globally but act locally, one of those platitudes that has kept its cogency.
With Soderbergh acting as director, cinematographer and editor on every episode (predominantly written by its two creators), The Knick has the authored cogency of a classy British costume drama, with authentic gas lighting as gloomy as Wolf Hall's, plus the sex and violence that are compulsory to US premium cable.
The metaphysical worldview that once supported the sacred canopy may have lost much of its cogency for the modern mind, along with the arguments of medieval scholastics that sailors cannot kiss their wives goodbye on Sundays, or hangmen go to heaven, but the dualisms associated with that worldview have continued to haunt the philosophical imagination.
He does so even though he doubts that any of those leveraging arguments are cogent, realizes that many of those to whom he addresses them will have comparable doubts about their cogency, and so believes that many coerced by the law he supports have no good reason, from their perspective, to affirm that law.
