(We owe the curiously unhelpful name "ontological argument" to Kant. The medievals simply called it "Anselm's" argument [ratio Anselmi].) The proper way to state Anselm's argument is a matter of dispute, and any detailed statement of the argument will beg interpretative questions.
"[The merger] is certainly not unhelpful in that argument [that CRR should go]," Crozier said.
During much of the debate, when the candidates went back and forth tearing down each other's plans, the three found their arguments unhelpful, as when each tried to insist that his plan on Medicare would be best for Americans.
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Brown says the interventions of David Cameron and George Osborne in the independence debate have been unhelpful: "The way the currency argument was put by the government made the issue Scotland versus Britain … If the only propaganda that comes from the Conservatives is, 'Britain says No', it's bound to have a reaction in Scotland.
(And one of his arguments in the book about unhelpful etiquette between pilots could imply that Air France might be one carrier worth avoiding because France has a so-called "high-power-distance culture" where co-pilots may not speak up forcefully enough during an in-flight crisis).
Her argument is as dangerous for scientists as it is unhelpful for promoting the public understanding of science.
While that might be true, it's a really unhelpful assumption when we're trying to understand debates and arguments - unhelpful not just for historians, but also for scientists, science communicators and science fans today.
The outrageousness of the phrase has had another unhelpful effect, which was to detract from the defense's more reasonable argument: that Ethan, at sixteen, was not irremediably damaged by his parents, and was still young enough to benefit from therapy.
But we agree that the argument made by the figure is intuitive and un‐rigorous, rendering it unhelpful for the more sophisticated reader, so we removed it.
He said: "This is an important argument, and to insult the intelligence of 60-plus chief executives is unhelpful.
