Sentence examples for mode of argument from inspiring English sources

The magazine's writers employed an argumentative and ideological mode of argument that, as the education writer Kevin Carey noted in The New Republic, may have permanently influenced Ravitch's style.

When he cast off his cautious, lawyerly mode of argument, Lincoln rose to grand rhetorical heights, delineating an argument about democracy that, Mr. Guelzo contends, carries to the present day.

Her revelation about the threat that venality poses to national security had provided her with a mode of argument that might prove persuasive with a critical audience — the military.

Nor did they reflect that "faith-based" political action, from the Rushdie affair via 9/11 to Islamic State, placed a moral duty on atheists to adopt a more robust mode of argument.

Neither the content of nor the mode of argument for these various versions were identical.

We will first approach it by using a mode of argument typical of phenomenology.

There was nothing new in this; but what caught Mill's eye was that Mackintosh's mode and manner of argument was borrowed, as the author acknowledged, from "the writer of a late criticism on Mr. Mill's Essay. See Edinburgh Review, No. 97, March 1829".

Denialists are "trapped" into byzantine modes of argument because they have few other options in pursuing their goals.

Both aspired, à la Pollock, to perfect unconventional modes of argument that would knock any would-be antagonist cold.

Much of class time will be devoted to careful readings of primary sources in translation, with attention to major themes and modes of argument.

We have no acceptable account of the salient scholarly thematics of the period for individual disciplines, let alone across them; or of the key contributions of the major thinkers, the dominant modes of argument, the criteria of judgment.