Sentence examples for influential argument from inspiring English sources

An influential argument against speciesism, advanced by Singer, rests on what he calls the principle of equal consideration of interests (PEC).

One influential argument is that the development of professional and effective state bureaucracies is more difficult in areas where democratization precedes the consolidation of core state institutions).

This book's most influential argument is that Hamilton was enduringly ill-served by the image-shaping abilities of Jefferson and others.

The prevailing view today is captured by Garrett Hardin's influential argument that "freedom in a commons brings ruin to us all," the famous "tragedy of the commons": what is not owned will be destroyed by individual avarice.

Third was an influential argument by the American philosopher Grover Maxwell (1918 81), who noted that the concept of the observable varies with the range of available devices: many people are unable to observe much without interposing pieces of glass (or plastic) between their eyes and the world; more can be observed if one uses magnifying glasses, microscopes, telescopes, and other devices.

But an influential argument due to Williamson (2000) suggests otherwise.

Namier and his followers dismissed the idea that Burke had a mind and a philosophy or a set of influential arguments as a sentimental fantasy indulged by amateurs.

He turns his fire on the German critical theorist Jürgen Habermas, whose influential arguments against enhancement are grounded in the idea of human autonomy and the Kantian imperative to treat humans as ends not means.

Mr. Rif- kin's Bach credentials stem large- ly from his influential arguments that Bach would often have per- formed his choruses with one or, at most, two voices to a part, out- lined in High Fidelity magazine in 1982 and carried into his perform- ances as conductor.

See, especially, the important and highly influential arguments of Guha (1989).

Among the earliest and most influential arguments for broad content were Hilary Putnam's arguments in such essays as "The Meaning of 'Meaning'" (1975).