In sum, then, although the Moral Status Framework appears to provide a sound objection to status-enhancing research, its application is nonetheless hampered by the empirical uncertainties regarding the effects that various kinds of hESC transplants would have and the moral uncertainties regarding which effects would be status-enhancing.
None of the other young men seemed surprised, or sounded an objection.
But should they be so powerful – and are their objections sound?
Here the appearance of Mr. Britell on the screen and the superb quality of Symphony Space's sound system undercut objections, and the video production offered other compensations as well.
Are all these objections sound?
As Ward puts it: "If the Leibnizian assumption, that there are no beings devoid of perception and spontaneity… is otherwise sound, then the objections to transeunt action between things become irrelevant" (219).
We can note that the objection, if sound, would apparently prove too much, since a parallel objection would imply that there can be no such thing as genuine (numerical) identity through change of properties over time.
But such objections always sound better on paper.
The first of these objections is sound enough, as shown by the Danish cartoon controversy.
However, for all its merits, the medial identification of sounds with sound waves raises some objections and leaves some matters wanting.
