Sentence examples for weaker argument from inspiring English sources

The idea of "Werktreue," or honoring what the score says, was a weaker argument in the 19th century.

John F. Manning's defense of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. uses a classic straw-man fallacy by conflating Congressional Democrats' actual criticism with a weaker version, and then persuasively disputing the weaker argument.

Political leaders, including Pericles, are said to have consulted with Protagoras of Abdera — the most famous of the Sophists — who argued that there were two sides to every question, and advertised his ability to make the weaker argument appear stronger.

There was a considerably weaker argument for filibustering executive appointments, rooted in the word "advice" in the "advice and consent" clause of Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution.

The weaker argument grants extensional correctness, but argues that no naturalistic reduction will get the intension of the notion of meaning/content right; it will inevitably miss the normative character of what is semantically correct, its deontic or axiologic characteristics.

His extant writings include display speeches, purportedly in defence of Helen and Palamedes against charges of treachery (DK 82B11 and 11a); they seem to be intended partly as examples of stylistic brilliance for its own sake and partly as demonstration of skill in adversarial argument, 'making the weaker argument the stronger' (see above).

A second group was presented both with strong arguments in support of the project and weaker arguments opposing it.

Presented with weaker arguments running contrary to their own, Americans were likely to solidify their opinions, Dr. Nisbett said, "clobbering the weaker arguments," and resolving the threatened contradiction in their own minds.

Asians, however, were more likely to modify their own position, acknowledging that even the weaker arguments had some merit.

Both of these points, I realized later, were close cousins of two of the weaker arguments that liberals have made in recent decades.

They allow the opponents to focus on the weaker arguments and thereby to divert attention away from the bigger debate... Referendum campaigns are not won by those who try to set out rational arguments - Nor are election campaigns.