Sentence examples for of positive argument from inspiring English sources

We will consider versions of the two basic kinds of positive argument in favor of religious theses: a priori arguments and a posteriori arguments.

Groarke & Tindale 2012 use traditional fallacies as a basis for the definition of positive argument schemes, by treating ad hominem, guilt by association, appeals to ignorance, two wrongs reasoning, etc. as legitimate schemes of argument — and by treating fallacious instances of them as deviations from an (inherently correct) norm.

Even if this policy never gets adopted, debating the alternatives will provide Labour with a clearer set of positive arguments for the principle itself.

As the founder of the Skyscraper Museum, which for six years has celebrated the high-rise history of New York and championed tall buildings as urban forms for the present and future, I was pleased to read the summary of positive arguments offered by Witold Rybczynski in "The Future of Up" (Dec. 9).

Lemma 1 Let M ( x, y ) be a homogeneous mean of positive arguments x and y.

Second, one might grant, if only for the sake of the argument, the prima facie force of the positive argument but attempt to neutralize it by widening the factual basis to include a matching set of facts, equally well attested, for which the falsehood of the resurrection account is the best explanation.

Whether or not his challenge can be met is irrelevant, for it pegs the legitimacy of any positive argument for religion on a zero-sum game against his construction of "pure" rationality – the singular force for Good untarnished by superstition.

But McCain isn't making much of a positive argument for himself, beyond a few buzzwords like "maverick".

If judges are sometimes to deviate from what would otherwise be, according to law, the morally best outcome to a case before them on grounds of coherence, then, Raz contends, we are in need of a convincing positive argument why this should be so.

(See section 3.3 for discussion of Martin's positive argument for Naïve Realism, which can be seen as an attempt to challenge such claims).

Alústiza et al. [ 21] compared the method of Gandon with the results of biopsies, and the results indicated a positive argument for the reproducibility of Gandon's technique.