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But where the original Atlantic piece delivered a punchy and purposeful argument, the book-length version leaves the reader with a sense of frustration at an opportunity missed.
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The plaintiffs' lawyers want to resubmit their claim using a new legal argument of "purposeful discrimination".
The "positive" argument claims that something exhibiting "purposeful arrangement of parts" is evidence for ID--the flagellum again being Exhibit A. While scientists say ID is unscientific because there is no way of falsifying its tenets, Behe insists that the claim about the flagellum is "open to direct experimental rebuttal".
I find such arguments tiresome, and about as purposeful as going to a ballgame and insisting that the infield fly rule is illogical.
The thrust of argument in this article is that technical writing, and the action or system that it describes, must be purposeful, problem-orientated, testable or repeatable, parsimonious and antifragile.
"She's very purposeful".
"And that is purposeful".
Meanwhile Clover is purposeful.
His refusal is purposeful.
It appears almost purposeful.
Its naïveté seems purposeful.
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