Many critics still believe theatre has a quasi-educational/political role; that a play posits an argument that the playwright then proves or disproves.
In place of a sound argument a deductively valid argument with true premises Johnson and Blair posit an alternative ideal of a cogent argument, one whose premises are acceptable, relevant to and sufficient for its conclusion.
But Pepper's argument can be transformed into an epistemological challenge: there could never be good reason to posit an emergent property as opposed to complicating our fundamental theory to accommodate unusual macroscopic behavior.
Some psychologists posit an innate aggressiveness in man.
The other main argument for Reductionism is epistemological: we could never have any reason, according to this argument, to posit a period of empty time; and, moreover, even if there were such a period, we would not have any way of knowing about either its existence or its length.
Meier was aghast at Irwin's proposal; it posited an all-out argument against the permanence and eternal unities that Meier's architecture symbolized.
Let us, though, for argument's sake, posit a purpose-built retirement home or a foreign holiday, or a new central heating system, in place of the Lamborghini.
"Design arguments" come to mind, but like most philosophers, Hayek considers such arguments fallacious as arguments that we need to posit a designer to explain the emergence of order in nature.
Hayek, however, was frustrated to find the same fallacy in arguments that we need to posit a designer to explain the emergence of order in society (Hayek 1960, 59).
If successful, the teleological argument may provide some reason for thinking that the First Cause of the cosmological argument is purposive, while the ontological argument provides some reason for thinking that it makes sense to posit a being that has Divine attributes and necessarily exists.
They think he is right to posit a visual field with intrinsic sensational properties (and give supporting arguments).
