Sentence examples for means of argument from inspiring English sources

A July 12 letter writer, commenting on President Bush's faith-based initiative, says atheism is "a faith" because it is "subject to neither confirmation nor refutation by means of argument or evidence".

The phrase appears in "The Audacity of Hope," where it denotes a conversation among adults who listen to one another, who attempt to persuade one another by means of argument and evidence, and who remain open to the possibility that they could be wrong.

For example, it is seen as masculine to make one's point by means of argument, feminine to make one's point by means of narrative.

Those who are interested in understanding the character of economics and in contributing to its improvement should eschew methodology and study instead the "rhetoric" of economics — that is, the means of argument and persuasion that succeed among economists.

There are two ways of accommodating these higher-order arguments by means of argument raising: depending on whether one raises first the object argument and then the subject, or vice versa, one obtains two readings for one and the same syntactic derivation: a reading corresponding to the surface order, with ∀ taking scope over ∃, and a reading with the inverted scope order.

It is even written in the Quran that it is the greater jihad: "So obey not the disbelievers and strive (jihad) against them by means of the Quran with a mighty striving (greater jihad) (25:53)." In essence, Muslims are directed to use the Quran, not violence, as a means of arguments to respond back to anyone against Islam.

The EU is a guarantor of peace, a means of resolving argument through conversation, not conflict, and, through the single market, a source of prosperity.

He even relied on the argument based on utility as a last resort when he found it difficult to discourage political leaders to refrain from violence by means of normative argument alone, though he wrote that consideration of utility was not his concern.

By means of theoretical argument and numerical simulation, it is shown that the relaxation process which follows on the time scale T2, produces extremely thin embedded current sheets, along with generation of fast plasma flows.

Mary Daly notes, however, that Maritain is not clear about the extent to which our affirmative knowledge of God is arrived at by means of philosophical argument (Daly, p. 53).

Plutarch, at any rate, records that "Pericles heard Zeno of Elea discoursing on nature in the manner of Parmenides, and practicing a kind of skill in cross-examination and in driving one's opponent into a corner by means of contradictory argument" (Plu. Per. 4.5).