In an essay in 1998, he replied to claims that global warming was a myth, declaring that the real myth was that "natural resources and the ability of the earth's habitable regions to absorb the impacts of human activities are limitless".
A standard reply to relativism the claim that truths depend on a point of view is that this claim itself is either absolute (and so self-refuting) or relative (and therefore of no general import).
"You understand well that we cannot reply to anybody claiming to have an explanation of our result in terms of trivial mistakes," he said.
His reply to these claims has significantly shaped the discourse on Sage Philosophy.
When the time came for the prosecution to reply to my claims, they wanted more time.
This angered Bradman, who wrote in his 1949 book Farewell to Cricket in reply to Fingleton, claiming that as Fingleton was an inferior batsman, his record gave him "scarcely...any authority to criticise my methods".
Here is how it is likely to play out: Tomorrow, the Jets will give the National Football League their reply to Belichick's claim that the team is preventing him from making a living.
Replying to one claim from Shias that they would boycott the hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, following the death of al-Nimr, another post offers: "Rafidah go ahead we don't want you there anyway!" Another, again from the official DOAM Twitter account, makes a derogatory reference to al-Nimr stating: "#NimrAlNimr – Abuser of the Sahabah!" Shia groups criticised the comments.
Schmitt's implicit reply to this objection claims that the applicability of legal norms presupposes a general condition of social normality.
In reply to Arnauld, Descartes claims that he avoided this problem by distinguishing between present clear and distinct perceptions and those that are merely remembered (7:246).
In his reply to DeWitt, Everett claimed that pure wave mechanics "is in full accord with our experience (at least insofar as ordinary quantum mechanics is)... just because it is possible to show that no observer would ever be aware of any 'branching,' which is alien to our experience as you point out" Barrett and Byrne (eds) (2012, 254).
