The resolution of these arguments and determination of the real state of affairs forces one to deal with logical matters such as the analysis of the meaning of the statement in question, and the application of logical rules to specific cases.
Only then will we make progress toward a peaceful resolution of the stalemated argument raging right now between two of our most important American freedoms.
The early White House debates over health care pitted the Daschlites against the Office of Management and Budget, and we saw the resolution of those arguments reflected in Obama's recent budget: a six-hundred-and-thirty-four-billion-dollar down payment on universal health care (which will eventually cost at least twice that amount).
The trouble is, there can be no resolution of this argument.
Mr. Obama also announced the resolution of another argument between Tehran and Washington that dates to the Iranian revolution, this one over $400 million in payments for military equipment that the United States sold to the shah of Iran and never delivered when he was overthrown.
And here, at last, was the resolution, shaky and cynical, of the argument between the people and progress.
"The argument that a resolution of the full Legislature is required before a subpoena issued is not good law and would hamper legitimate investigations," said Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, a Westchester Democrat, who won a fight with the Pataki administration over subpoenas regarding a state development deal.
The resolution of such arguments will not detain us here, for while "empirically modest" virtue ethics may offer valuable contributions to ethical theory,[20] it is of limited relevance to our present topic of moral psychology, since it does not aspire to a generally applicable, empirically adequate account of actual moral functioning.
Despite all the trouble the issue has caused him, he says he sees both sides of the argument — and no simple resolution.
And I took the view I would prefer to be on the side of the argument that said a second resolution wasn't necessary".
