Sentence examples for the weakest argument from inspiring English sources

This may be the weakest argument.

And equating legality with morality is perhaps the weakest argument of the lot.

The poll data make no such proof and Lux is right to point out this is the weakest argument in their report.

Sam Donaldson asks to be tagged in, and says, "That is the weakest argument for keeping millions of Americans from receiving health care I have ever heard".

I think this is one of the weakest arguments.

Again, this question goes back thousands of years: The Sophists of Classical Athens were accused of "making the weaker argument appear the stronger". It's hard to fool large groups of people for long periods of time.

John F. Manning's defense of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. uses a classic straw-man fallacy by conflating Congressional Democrats' actual criticism with a weaker version, and then persuasively disputing the weaker argument.

Now, "instead of the weak argument that there is nothing to discuss with Maskhadov as he controls no one there is the unbeatable argument that there really is no one to speak to now".

Political leaders, including Pericles, are said to have consulted with Protagoras of Abdera — the most famous of the Sophists — who argued that there were two sides to every question, and advertised his ability to make the weaker argument appear stronger.

The weaker argument grants extensional correctness, but argues that no naturalistic reduction will get the intension of the notion of meaning/content right; it will inevitably miss the normative character of what is semantically correct, its deontic or axiologic characteristics.

His extant writings include display speeches, purportedly in defence of Helen and Palamedes against charges of treachery (DK 82B11 and 11a); they seem to be intended partly as examples of stylistic brilliance for its own sake and partly as demonstration of skill in adversarial argument, 'making the weaker argument the stronger' (see above).