Sentence examples for instrumental arguments from inspiring English sources

Because I don't think the instrumental arguments are going to be persuasive on their own".

I added that it was particularly important to challenge the relevance of "instrumental arguments" about funding; even more so to insist on the "intrinsic importance of values as a key justification" for arts support.

"These instrumental arguments are going to doom the arts to failure, because any superintendent is going to say, 'If the only reason I'm having art is to improve math, let's just have more math.' " "Do we want to therefore say, 'No singing,' because singing didn't lead to spatial improvement?" Ms. Winner added.

Not all instrumental arguments favor democracy.

The instrumental arguments show the existential and psychological rewards of virtue and costs of vice.

In the TTP Spinoza provides both principled and instrumental arguments in favor of democracy.

And yet that instrumental argument carries other risks – triggering reservations from some quarters of academia.

But that is an instrumental argument, and not one about whether the plan runs counter to American values, or about the Americanness of American Muslims.

The "instrumental" argument against torture – that it doesn't work – invites the conclusion that on those occasions where torture would work, there's nothing wrong with using it.

The most forceful contemporary statement of this instrumental argument is provided by Amartya Sen, who argues, for example, that "no substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent country with a democratic form of government and a relatively free press" (Sen 1999, 152).

As he argues in detail in his new book, he believes that we find a satisfactory basis for Confucian democracy in two different forms of justification an instrumental argument in terms of sanctions and an expressive argument in terms of trust.