Among others, John Locke made it a habit to lament the way Bibles came so elaborately subdivided, destroying the thread of argument or narrative and producing readers who remembered sentences rather than concepts.
To ask ourselves this would be the logical consequence of the thread of argument we have pursued, but it is possible that, put in these terms, the question we are facing has not been posed properly.
Believe it or not, this can help you trace out that thread of argument, chiefly by locating the place where the emphasis falls.
There are no cohesive threads of arguments, and every quote that raises an eyebrow gets repeated ad nauseum.
But efforts by federal prosecutors to prove Mr. Mitchell's competency, legal experts said, could face difficulties because of potentially conflicting threads of argument about his mental state.
Tongue-tied, underprepared and tone-deaf, the Texas governor mangled his attack lines, lost the thread of his arguments and accused rank-and-file conservatives — his natural base — of heartlessness on immigration.
He lost the thread of his argument.
As King develops his theme, he unspools the thread of his argument with wonderful fluidity.
The thread of his argument is often lost for pages, even chapters.
The unfortunate result is that some readers may become exhausted by the sustained level of concentration, lose the thread of the argument, and stop reading.
