Sentence examples for illustrative argument from inspiring English sources

As the aims of the study were exploratory and the intention was not to provide definitive assessment of specific effects, an illustrative argument was used to justify the sample size.

It is perhaps more illustrative if this argument (from this point on, this statement will simply be referred to as the "presumed consent") is written in classic form: Health care services should be provided to patients who have a contagious disease.

Both "pay equity" statistics (although usefully illustrative) and the arguments debunking these statistics (such as Mr. Grothman's "suggestion" that it is more important for men to make money than for women) are distracting and misleading for three reasons: 1) both strongly suggest an incorrect zero-sum, either/or, women v. men framework for the issue.

It would be foolish to extend this argument beyond its possibly illustrative usefulness.

For illustrative purposes and to concretize our arguments, we draw on both primary data from the Dutch television industry and archival data from four episodes of disruptive innovations.

The implied amorality of the NRA argument against gun control is illustrative, perhaps as much as the possible individual psychopathy of the gunman at Sandy Hook.

They give a FrameNet-like set of illustrative examples of naturally occurring sentences that illustrate the predicate-argument structures that they propose, but do not investigate alternations in argument structure, per se; Kogan et al. (2005) [28] extend that work to medical literature.

His criticisms of the traditional arguments for God's existence are taken as illustrative of his opposition to religion, and the so-called "Restriction Thesis" of Transcendental Idealism is regarded as a barrier against all legitimate religious assent.

We now borrow an illustrative example from Landberg [623], but we add a twist to this argument for the purpose of illustrating this discussion.

In view of the arguments in Remark 4.1, we can conclude by the second illustrative example.

This argument, based on the alleged failure of animals to display certain intellectual capacities, is illustrative of a general pattern of using certain dissimilarities between animals and humans to argue that animals lack consciousness.