Sentence examples for mode of arguing from inspiring English sources

By 'fallacy' Whately meant "any unsound mode of arguing, which appears to demand our conviction, and to be decisive of the question at hand, when in fairness it is not"' (Bk. III, intro).

Instead of arguing, tell stories.

Despite the considerable similarities between the two NPs, their different half-lives and different modes of degradation argue for a separate analysis and make a direct comparison indispensable.

Kearney and Shuck (2006) have presented the learner-generated video production process as a mode of authentic learning, arguing that digital video projects subvert traditional assessment tasks by displacing the initiative to the student.

She specifies, however, that literature is the most effective mode of aesthetic representation, arguing that its ability to illustrate the specific circumstances and problems of people in the world makes literature an especially rich contribution to the "curriculum for world citizenship".

Kumārila appealed to this mode of reasoning to argue, for example, for the necessity of positing universals as the referents of words; thus, what one understands, on rightly taking the meaning of a word, is that (a universal) without which the word's communicative capacity would not be intelligible.

The analysis of this fallacy is that the general premise could not be known to be true unless the conclusion was known to be true; so, in making the argument the conclusion is assumed true from the beginning, or in an older mode of expression, the arguer has committed the fallacy of begging the question.

She describes chromosome splitting as a mode of speciation that, she argues, occurs in sympatric populations.

Given the high environmental costs of this mode of production, these authors argue that there is a need and growing promise in the development of useful perennial plants for agriculture.

The finding by Hofer and colleagues [ 1] that necrosis but not apoptosis is the primary mode of hepatocyte death further argues against a therapeutic efficacy of caspase inhibitors, at least in septic patients with liver dysfunction.

Aristotle further elaborates on causality in the rest of Physics II and in Parts of Animals I. Aristotle explores the systematic interrelations among the four modes of causality and argues for the explanatory priority of the final cause.