The rebels are not getting stronger; they are just less frail than the other options.Sameer GhimireSydneyThinking manSIR – The Marqués de Tamarón used an old and easily refuted argument in his attempt to defend religious faith against atheism by pointing to the godless regimes of communism and National Socialism (Letters, October 7th).
He makes the preposterously feeble and easily refuted argument that he can somehow render more important "service" by clocking another two or six years in Albany and then doing something else, some unspecified something, than he could by spending the remaining decades of his life on the Supreme Court of the United States, that semi-sovereign institution of almost godlike power.
One of the group gave a short presentation on the facts of climate change, and they gave Parrott crib notes on refuting arguments by climate sceptics.
Reid takes pains to refute arguments from Hume (and to a lesser extent, Smith) for non-cognitivist forms of sentimentalism.
But it is important to realize that even if traditionalists succeed in refuting arguments for skepticism, they will not thereby show that we do have knowledge.
He then presents and refutes arguments that the world has no beginning, and provides his own positive arguments that the world must have a temporal beginning, a first instant of its existence.
Malkin and Miano go on, using shrewd reporting and spot-on anecdotes, to refute arguments put forward in favor of a number of other policies used to increase the supply of foreign technical and scientific workers, such as F student visas, L business visas, and the Optional Practical Training program.
An experiment examined the extent to which individuals could refute arguments that contradicted their personal beliefs.
Knox retorted that the Bible notes that Israel was punished when it followed an unfaithful king and that the Continental reformers were refuting arguments made by the Anabaptists who rejected all forms of government.
Research usage could take many forms, from agenda-setting, to provision of policy options, to challenging debates, or refuting arguments.
