Sentence examples for tempting argument from inspiring English sources
This is a tempting argument.
Such, of course is the supremely tempting argument of the Grand Inquisitor at the heart of "The Brothers Karamazov".
There's a tempting argument, partly responsible for the rising time spent on screens in schools, that technology is good for preparing children for the future.
The margin of defeat, they say, would have been a great deal wider had it not been for the charisma of Lucien Bouchard, who rose from his sick-bed (having come close to death from a flesh-eating disease) to rescue the referendum campaign of the PQ premier of the day, Jacques Parizeau.It is a tempting argument.
A third false assumption is that anyone who knows something must be aware of knowing it (the following tempting argument appeals to this third assumption: it is possible to forget that one knows how to ride a bicycle, yet still retain the skill of riding a bicycle. Therefore, skill at bicycle riding does not involve knowledge).
This may not be the right time, they conclude, to rock the political boat.In this section The Republicans ride in A comedy that has gone on too long Finally, a talking-shop worth having Living in a see-through world The junta takes one small step back Reprints Related items Italy's beleaguered prime minister: A step too farNov 4th 2010It is a tempting argument, but it is wrong.
He appeals to a disjunctive conception of perceptual experience in offering a proposal as to how we should resist a "tempting" line of argument that has an epistemological conclusion.
Taking this line might be one way of resisting an epistemic assumption made in the "tempting" line of argument that McDowell considers, namely the assumption that matters external to how things are with you subjectively cannot intelligibly contribute, even in part, to your epistemic standing on some question.
To provide a series of explanations for these increases is tempting, invoking arguments for and against climate change, drug resistance, and land use changes; various authors discuss these arguments elsewhere (16 – 18, 20, 23 – 26, 30, 45 – 45 ).
Still, even if you're tempted by arguments that art is the next new asset class, and data such as the Mei Moses World All Art Index, which as of June 2015 had outperformed the S&P 500 since the end of 2013, there are a few caveats to bear in mind.
A rival proposal from J.C. Flowers, an American private-equity firm, for example, promised to repay more of the Bank of England's loan at once.The sudden rush to advance Virgin's case is ill-advised, however tempting the political arguments might be for getting Northern Rock off the front pages.
