Sentences with phrase «meaningful arguments about»

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Kant set the problem with his argument against any knowledge of the Ding an sich, the thing in itself, and Schleiermacher represents the first great attempt to accept that turn and still talk about God in a meaningful way.

The argument from suffering reaches beyond medicine's responsibility and competence; it extends into metaphysical questions about the nature of human happiness and what constitutes a meaningful life.

THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.

Creating more meaningful connections is what Match is about, and they are getting serious about innovating past the «online dating hasn't changed in a decade» argument that is perpetually thrown at the industry.

They read a novel about life in urban America, they write letters to city council members and state representatives, the compile statistics to support their arguments in their letters; in short, they use their discipline - based skills of scientific inquiry, math, literacy, social studies and health to do what people in the real world do — synthesize the skills and knowledge in a meaningful way.

Victor, you no right to complain about lack of response, meaningful or otherwise, since you are guilty of practicing what you preach against: You have not responded — meaningfully or otherwise — to my comments at 120 and 156, in which I exposed the general illogic underling all your argumentation, this general illogic being the falsity that, given a cause and effect relationship established by the laws of physics, effects not manifesting as strongly as we would like is somehow some sort of legitimate argument that this cause and effect relationship established by the laws of physics is false.

If I were an editor, i would solicit a review from those being criticized (they are the ones most likely to have something meaningful to say about the paper), but I would weight their review that considered their arguments, rather than their conclusions.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

Dr. Whitehouse can try and head this argument off at the pass about using previous years as starting points by calling this «cherry picking» but that's - nothing - compared to the slight - of - hand it takes to present this amount of data as if it were a meaningful representation of climate trends.

Without a meaningful definition, arguments about causal factors are scientific fallacy.