While Mr Sharon quibbles over dismantling new Jewish settlements and Israeli negotiators relish the thought of interminable arguments about what, precisely, constitutes "settlement activity", and similar details, Mr Bush is either not interested or determined to stay out of such squabbles.
The former are best thought of as arguments that begin with alleged moral facts and argue that God is necessary to explain those facts, or at least that God provides a better explanation of them than secular accounts can offer.
His writing and analysis, like the man himself, were distinguished for grace of style, clarity of thought, and force of argument.
The resolution of this apparent paradox along various lines of thought and argument, accompanied by easy-to-understand examples, are enlightening and in themselves worth reading.
When I started work on a study of thought and argument about peace from ancient times to today, I found it surprisingly hard to explain what I was doing.
This proposed ethical guidance, based on an eclectic selection from overlapping systems of thought and argument, finds that the public health equity issues faced by the humanitarian community can be framed as issues of resource allocation and issues of decision-making.
Every dab of colour seems to be the result of days of thought and internal argument.
This line of thought does echo a pattern of argument that is found in many ethicists, from Plato's Republic to Philippa Foot's "Moral Beliefs".
We can run a similar line of thought with the argument from hallucination.
A handful of critics — Mr. Sarris, Ms. Kael, Mr. Simon, Stanley Kauffmann and Manny Farber — argued that this was art worthy of sustained thought and argument.
