Sentence examples for technique of argument from inspiring English sources

In a familiar, rarely effective technique of argument, scrambling to extricate himself from the lies he has told, Pinocchio tries to put the blame back on the fairy.

(i) The new technique of argument is applied to derive our Theorem 3.1.

His approach to educating his students about philosophical pitfalls and techniques of argument such as oversimplification and reductio ad absurdum (Dennett calls them intuition pumps) is a master class in philosophical theatre, packed with snappy vignettes – thought experiments in the absurd to skewer his opponents.

This concern for the techniques of argument on occasion merely led to verbal displays of debating skills, what Plato called "eristic". But it is also true that the Sophists were instrumental in bringing argumentation to the central position it came uniquely to hold in Greek thought.

In any event, we do have some evidence for Protagoras' teaching of techniques of argument.

Clever techniques of argument were taught by some sophists, as were serious devices for the effective staging of adversary debate, on which the city-states of those periods depended, both for decisions about policy and for verdicts in criminal cases.

The new technique of an argument is applied in deriving Theorem 3.1.

(iii) The new technique of an argument is applied in deriving Theorem 3.1.

The technique of adversarial argument clearly has some connection with two specific claims for which Protagoras was famous (or notorious).

This emphasis is similarly apparent in most meta-ethnographies, which are conducted either according to Noblit and Hare's 'reciprocal translational analysis' technique or to their 'lines-of-argument' technique and which seek to provide a 'whole' which has a greater explanatory power.

It means, contrary to what some critics of professors might suppose, that I am not attempting to indoctrinate them into anything other than the best techniques of legal argument.