(More than a few of Jay Carsey's decisions like this call into question the widely held view that he was highly intelligent: those who met him, however, insist he was, and say this merely showed his panic and bewilderment).
Last year, Julian Luxford of St Andrews University came across a note written around 1460 in the margins of an earlier English chronicle, describing Robin as having "infested" parts of England with "continuous robberies": this merely showed, as Luxford drily observed, a clerical bias against an anti-clerical ballad hero.
However, damages have continued to rise, from $1.1 billion in 1999 to $3.5 billion last year (excluding the $6 billion-plus WorldCom settlement).Doesn't this merely show the legal system is doing its job in a country in which big rewards mean big incentives to cheat?
In the first type of display, this graph merely showed that energy use for the entire household was higher in July than it had been in June.
Those convinced that abortion is murder can, of course, maintain that this entire line of argument merely shows that we must hold that the fertilized egg is a human person: abortion is always wrong and it wouldn't be if the fertilized egg weren't a person.
This is why the familiar mantra of creationists, that "Darwinism is only a theory", (see the article in this issue by T. Ryan Gregory) merely shows how deeply these well-meaning people misunderstand what science is all about.
Instead of demonstrating that the entire aggregate of everything finite constitutes a single self-standing substance, he merely shows that this aggregate must depend upon the sole infinite substance" (Gesammelte Schriften, 3/2, p. 107).
"This, alas, has none of the above - Arnie merely shows up in a non-speaking role, which appears to be computer trickery.
