Indeed, what suffering does is to raise for each of us, in a way mere argument cannot, the problem of evil — and with it the inevitable temptation to sullenness, self-pity, and enmity toward whatever God there may be.
It would appear there was a lot more to the Van der Garde situation than a mere argument over a driver contract.
Moreover, it has been shown that the mere addition argument and the like can be reconstructed on the normative level, in terms of what one ought to choose, without an appeal to transitivity (Arrhenius 2004).
This is no mere argument anymore.
He was not interested, however, in writing a polemic to make his point — he thought Christians would require something stronger than mere argument to combat this new heterodoxy.
One cannot prove that something is valuable by mere argument.
While the concept has been embraced by environmentalists envisioning positive impulses for decoupling and a range of local stakeholders recognizing implicit marketing opportunities involved, it has also been criticized as a mere argument in favour of disguised protectionism.
But the mere fact that the argument from the poverty of the stimulus doesn't prove that UG is innately known is hardly reason to complain.
(Should a federal judge really have to say such a thing in 2011?) "Contrary to Virginia's arguments, the mere existence of a state law like the VHCFA does not license a state to mount a judicial challenge to any federal statute with which the state law assertedly conflicts".
One of the questions raised by this radical proposal is whether arguments like the mere addition paradox themselves justify the rejection of transitivity or whether further arguments are needed since transitivity seems to be part of the meaning and logic of the relation "better than" (Broome 2004).
