Well, it can't be taken to show that global freezes are possible, because (at least the way the story has been told here) they are simply a stipulated detail of the story, and we can't show that something is possible merely by stipulating that it is the case in some possible world.
It has not been caused by fans not being season tickets, merely exacerbated by that.
It is also to concede too much to the Epicurean, who could then establish that death is no evil merely by showing that posthumous events are innocuous.
And he's done that in a particularly cynical manner, claiming that Congress is interfering with executive power merely by demanding that the executive be held accountable for its exercise.
The carping leftwing criticism that you don't debunk something merely by stating that it's been debunked?
Cruelty and humiliation make some people happy, perhaps lots of people happy some of the time; and this issue is not dealt with merely by saying that they are not really happy or that they are in some way perverse or sick.
The Court rejected the notion that First Amendment claims could be dismissed merely by urging "that an organization for which the rights of free speech and free assembly are claimed is one 'engaged in business activities' or that the individual who leads it in exercising these rights receives compensation for doing so". Id., at 531, 65 S.Ct., at 323.
Others see moral skepticism as so absurd that any moral theory can be refuted merely by showing that it leads to moral skepticism.
Instead, union recognition would occur merely by showing that 50% of workers had signed union cards, a publicly open gesture that makes workers vulnerable to intimidation.
One important finding in this study was that comfort and security could be obtained through a pre-arranged availability of physical therapy and that the persons with migraine were able to cope better merely by knowing that help was available.
However, he does so by knowing his essence as a cause, and that is possible only by knowing "something (aliquid) through a cause, not merely by knowing that which is the cause (i.e., God)".
