Sentence examples for in the foregoing argument from inspiring English sources

Some philosophers, conceding that the claimed incompatibility in the foregoing argument is too strong, contend, nevertheless, that even if the existence of God and the existence of evil should prove to be compatible, the existence (or duration, or amount, or pervasiveness) of evil provides us at the very least with compelling circumstantial evidence that God does not exist.

In order to do this, the foregoing argument for coherentism must be supplemented.

(The foregoing argument in either version threatens to generalize to all dispositional properties: see dispositions, §6. For the problem aimed at functionalism in particular, see Block 1990; Rupert 2006; functionalism, §5.2).

In opposition to al-Kindi's application of the foregoing argument to time, most subsequent philosophers in the falsafa tradition took the conclusion of the above argument to entail only that an actual infinite magnitude or number of things could not exist, that is to say, there cannot exist some wholly completed infinite all of whose parts exist at one and the same moment in time.

The foregoing argument relates to scale transformations in the sense of order-preserving adjustments in the metric used to assign numbers to an individual utility function.

The foregoing argument makes essential use of collapse.

Graham Oppy (2003) suggests a way to defeat the foregoing argument.

The foregoing argument incorporates deontological and consequentialist considerations.

Rupert (2001) has a lengthy reply to the foregoing argument.

If the foregoing argument is granted, then it follows that it would be our duty to maximise the placebo effect.

From a utilitarian point of view, however, the foregoing argument for the enactment of some form of social minimum is not conclusive.