These echo chambers of opinion can slowly reinforce specific angles of an argument and even encourage the public sharing of more controversial suggestions which you might be hesitant to do with a greater chance that they would be challenged.
The specifics of their argument aren't important, but one thing is for certain -- many of us at one time or another have had arguments like this, and these arguments occur over the most trivial of matters to the most serious.
"Not only is this manifestly incorrect," the panel wrote in a pointed footnote, after vacating the deportation order, "but the government's failure to assist the court in evaluating the specifics of petitioner's argument required the court to conduct a special, searching analysis of petitioner's contentions before, during and after oral argument".
But the specifics of his closing argument remain in flux as the White House searches for a way to frame the message that connects with voters.
The fiercest criticism, however, has come from people who fault Mr. Nagel not just for the specifics of his arguments but also for what they see as a dangerous sympathy for intelligent design.
I have previously discussed the problems with the specifics of Plantinga's argument (Pennock 2002) and will not repeat those here.
This is just a specific instance of a broader argument made by University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds (aka "Instapundit") that free markets reward the efficient dissemination of bad news, whereas bureaucracies tend to discourage it.
Lawyers for Stockton were in bankruptcy court on Thursday but did not address the specifics of the insurers' arguments.
That Plato saw Zeno as a practitioner of the specific brand of argument known as antilogic is evidenced by the Phaedrus's famous description of him as the "Eleatic Palamedes" for his ability to make the same things appear to his audience both like and unlike, one and many, moving and at rest (Phdr. 261d6 8).
As the aims of the study were exploratory and the intention was not to provide definitive assessment of specific effects, an illustrative argument was used to justify the sample size.
Students receive nearly 600 pages of high-level research organized into specific topics that they craft into an argument.
