In his very last work, completed only days before his death, al-Ghazâlî discusses whether God creates "through the mediation" (bi-wâsita) of his creations or not, and maintains that the matter cannot be settled decisively (al-Ghazâlî 1985, 68 69).
Oswald Avery showed in 1943 that DNA was likely the genetic material of the chromosome, not its protein; the issue was settled decisively with the 1952 Hershey Chase experiment one of many contributions from the so-called phage group centered around physicist-turned-biologist Max Delbrück.
But two economists decided to settle this decisively in 2014 using BLS data that covers 98% of U.S. businesses, the QCEW dataset.
Reid's argument does not decisively settle the question of whether or not human conduct comes about in accordance with laws linking it to prior motives.
But who would have been brave enough to stop those two distinguished warriors if they had agreed a way to settle the matter decisively?
She added: "This market is worth £12.9bn to Scotland's exporters and the European question needs to be settled quickly and decisively.
Scottish business leaders have called for the issue of Britain's membership of the European Union to be settled "quickly and decisively" in the wake of the general election result.
In any event, the interrelationships among suicide's moral permissibility, its rationality, and the duties of others and of society as a whole is complex, and we should be wary of assuming that an answer to any one of these four questions decisively settles the other three.
Yet a combination of self-interest and a desire for misdirection have propelled factions of both parties to debate the results of an election already decisively settled.
Mr. Twombly's decision to settle permanently in southern Italy in 1957 as the art world shifted decisively in the other direction, from Europe to New York, was only the most symbolic of his idiosyncrasies.
It helps and prods and forces students to engage in their learning and in the world, to confront the assumptions they make and the lives that they lead, to learn to ask difficult questions rather than settle for easy answers, to think deeply and act decisively.
