Sentence examples for reason and argument from inspiring English sources

As Stanley Fish suggests, an appeal to reason and argument might be irrelevant to those who do not value reason and argument.

They taught her to work hard and wrestle through problems with reason and argument.

He is trying to argue for reason and argument having a role".

In both political and propaganda terms the struggle over whaling is a biblical contest between absolutes, where reason and argument have no place.

(Brodsky thought a major difference between Russian and English poetry was that Russian verse insisted on sound before sense, while English verse insisted on reason and argument).

As crows mob hawks, cawing loudly, so do reason and argument seem to be cawing at the author, who approaches religion as if kettling on the soft warm breezes.

But it is the spirits of the Greeks that exert the greatest influence on "Anathem": at its best, the book is a thought experiment in narrative form, a meditation on how far a society can go on pure reason and arguments from first principles.

Finally, Socrates argues that the philosopher is better than the honor-lover and the money-lover in reason, experience, and argument.

So, third, to decide which pleasure really is best, we need to determine which sort of person's judgment is best, and Socrates suggests that whoever has the most reason, experience, and argument is the best judge.

I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have wilfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think.

Moreover, Nietzsche's naturalism, and the prominent role it assigns to non-conscious drives and type-facts, leads him to be skeptical about the efficacy of reasons and arguments.