Thune and the Alliance are both making self-interested arguments, of course.
What begins as a strategic use of a non-self-interested arguments ends up leading to preference change (Fearon 1998, 54).
Their self-interested arguments are laughable in light of the enormous, clearly established damage that alcohol indiscriminately inflicts upon the economy for all of us, whether we're an abstainer, moderate drinker or problem drinker.
In the literature two main theories are discussed to explain motivation of participants to participate in clinical trials: Altruistic motives as well as self-interested arguments.
We are exclusively interested in arguments that confirm our firmly held convictions.
For instance, Goldberg said she's interested in arguments found in Jacobin, a socialist-leaning magazine, the growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and debates on the left over the radical, anti-fascist group known as antifa. .
It was hoped that the European court would shed some reason and light on this debate and rise above self-interested government arguments.
Their relevance is, again, arguable, but by now it should be clear that Mr. Moore is less interested in argument than in provocation.
"I would be interested in…the argument for the evidence in which the Models of Care are based and how that fits in the service delivery models both in terms of an economic perspective and also an integrated sort of model".
(SME 5) "I would be interested in…the argument for the evidence in which the Models of Care are based and how that fits in the service delivery models both in terms of an economic perspective and also an integrated sort of model".
The capacity for constructing counter-examples is very important, since we are often as interested in which arguments turn out to be invalid as in which arguments are valid.
