He argued, however, that this admission does not show the untenability of materialism.
Hasdai Crescas (1340 1410), while conceding the philosophical untenability of traditional belief in free will (see also determinism), launched a scathing attack on Aristotelian approaches to religion, and his disciple Joseph Albo (c. 1380 c. 1444) issued a compendium on dogma that reaffirmed the traditional postulates of divine creation, revelation, and retribution as axioms of Judaism.
He showed the correct relation of chlorine to hydrochloric acid and the untenability of the earlier name (oxymuriatic acid) for chlorine; this negated Lavoisier's theory that all acids contained oxygen.
Some in Spain suspect the periodic surges of migrants into its two African cities are co-orchestrated by Morocco, to underscore their untenability as Spanish, and EU, exclaves in Africa.
She has highlighted not only the untenability of Indian control over Kashmir, but also the silence of the United States.
And this untenability of the distinction between the material and the ideal in philosophy might serve as some guide toward descriptions of human behavior, in the everyday, non-philosophical sense, that capture more of the subtlety of what is going on than the denunciatory "materialist" or its laudatory opposite.
Be that as it may, The Quiet American had insight into the frailties of the early 1950s CIA and the untenability of US intervention in Vietnam.
The case is important, not because it will change the way law is practiced in the United States, nor because it will change anyone's immigration status, but because it illustrates the untenability of our current immigration laws, and the need of a truly comprehensive immigration bill.
This section ends with a lurid prose poem about the untenability of exile.
When John F. Kennedy Jr. dressed a supermodel as the father of our country and launched George (the lame title a tribute to its founder's star power and an omen of the concept's untenability), the idea was that fame was fame, whether that fame was measured by votes or by ticket sales.
At some obscure level the cultists are aware of the untenability of their claims.
