Sentence examples for work in the argument from inspiring English sources

He argues that Locke's repetitious use of "enough and as good" indicates that the phrase is doing some real work in the argument.

The latter reading is closest to the 'triviality' Jackson says he wants as his "secure starting-place", which might be better expressed as "yellowness is the property objects look to have when they look yellow" (cf. 1998, 89); but it is the former that is doing the work in the argument.

As we approach the close, I'd like to examine a specific type of legal reasoning at work in the arguments: the ex ante perspective.

Some argue for this incompatibility without relying upon the assumptions at work in the Consequence Argument (Fischer, 1994; and Ginet, 1990, 2003).

The central point towards which Slote works is that notions like unavoidability (or power necessity) are sensitive to contexts in a way that only "selectively" permits the sort of inference at work in the Consequence Argument.

We see this idea at work in the auxiliary arguments which Alexander offers to back up or explicate claims made in Aristotle's text.

Selim Berker argues on this basis that "neuroscientific results are actually doing no work" (2009: 294) in the argument.

Swapping the wiretap for the NSA's active review of the plaintiffs' metadata, the same logic is at work in the government's argument against the ACLU's standing to sue today.

Every work is here to raise an issue, present a theory or propose an argument (in many cases the work is the argument, spelled out in capital letters).

In more recent work the argument is usually reversed, with cobordism groups computed in terms of homotopy groups.

Olson (2007: 224 225) puts the problem of the many to work in an argument against universalism.