Sentence examples for telling criticism from inspiring English sources

See also Strevens 2001 for a different Bayesian attempt to offer both necessary and sufficient conditions for rejecting the auxiliary instead of the theory and Fitelson & Waterman 2005 for a telling criticism of that approach.

Hume's brief remarks on this subject have been further developed by other compatibilists with whom Hume is often closely identified (e.g., Moritz Schlick and J.J.C. Smart) This sort of forward-looking, utilitarian account of responsibility has been subject to telling criticism.

If that were the sequence of steps in Heidegger's argument, then not only would he be knowingly begging his own question but, worse, Schapiro's telling criticism that the shoes in Van Gogh's painting could not in fact have been used by a farmer would constitute a completely devastating objection to Heidegger's interpretation.

This background conception of a good human life (a conception Ronald Dworkin refers to as "the challenge model") has been subject to telling criticism (Arneson 2003); but its availability nicely illustrates how an ethical concern for promoting good human lives can ground resistance to perfectionist state policies designed to promote such lives.

A more telling criticism is that the new commission president is setting himself up for disappointment by focusing on areas where he has few powers.

A more telling criticism is that the Administration gave up the opportunity to split up the megabanks, such as Citibank and Bank of America.

That raises two telling criticisms.

Despite these telling criticisms, however, the wages-fund theory remained influential until the end of the 19th century.

Some of Hegel's most telling criticisms of the unmediated effects of modern civil society concern those on the psychological lives of individuals.

Anyone who can tell criticism from bullying can probably distinguish between "you look well" and pervy breast inspection.

We are constantly being told criticism is dead but Brian Sewell disproved that spectacularly by making himself famous for being a critic and always a critic.