Sentence examples for techniques of argument from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

The increase in participatory democracy, especially in Athens, led to a demand for success in political and forensic oratory, and hence to the development of specialized techniques of persuasion and argument.

Barthes certainly shrinks from being comprehensive; he has no interest in the techniques of photography, in arguments over its status as art, nor really in its role in contemporary media or culture, which he leaves to sociologists such as Pierre Bourdieu.