Sentence examples for hypothetical arguments from inspiring English sources

We can all indulge in hypothetical arguments since they serve our political interests so well.

As then, today's plans pitch fears about the cost and alleged chaos of upheaval against hypothetical arguments for change.

Both supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage make their case with hypothetical arguments about its social effects and claims about the history of marriage.

"But we now have facts that can be used to judge the A.C.A. rather than hypothetical arguments, and there's no doubt at this point that more people are getting insured and it's making a difference in their lives".

Third, Sextus never comes out and says that reciprocal and hypothetical arguments are actually bad arguments.

Matters are complicated by the fact that proponents of the view that the alleged problem of transworld identity is a pseudo-problem were to some extent responding to hypothetical arguments, rather than arguments presented in print by opponents (see Plantinga 1974, 93).

Invalid knowledge involves memory, doubt, error, and hypothetical argument.

A hypothetical argument for the probable existence of Martian fossils, however, is scarcely worth the effort of an E-mail message.

No. Congress voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act for four more years and the only point we – as critics – could raise that might be confused with debate was a hypothetical argument illustrated with a 20-year-old picture of Oliver North.

The idea that tight fiscal policy when the economy is depressed actually reduces private investment isn't just a hypothetical argument: it's exactly what happened in two important episodes in history.

Supporting this hypothetical argument, previous studies on eye movements and attention used stimulus configurations that would have been prone to crowding (e.g. Duebel et al, 1996, Kowler et al, 1995).