Sentences with phrase «arcane debates»

The stage is set, and what follows is Eco at his best — arcane debates on the medieval problem of universals or the poverty of Christ interspersed with monks thrown off balconies and poisoned by secret books.

It may seem like an arcane debate, but it has life - and - death ramifications every day, when IVF practitioners peer at egg cells through microscopes and try to predict the fate of the embryos they might become.

Until now, the dispute over who could rightly claim the Arctic's resources had boiled down to an arcane debate over which of the five nations» continental shelves were connected to the region's undersea mountain ranges.

Nevertheless, this rather arcane debate over the null hypothesis has important implications for the framing of the IPCC's attribution arguments, and I hope that this exchange will stimulate debate and discussion on this topic within the IPCC community.

Not exact matches

A few days prior to our interview, two programmers were having a heated debate about an arcane software issue.

What started as an arcane ideal debated a few years ago by techno - academics has become an issue that a good portion of the general public understands.

Having elected Ed Miliband as leader less than two months ago, now may seem an odd time for Labour to re-open the debate over its arcane voting system.

It appears Bercow is now, more than ever, granting Labour spurious SO24 debates, Points of Order and even advising them on how to use arcane parliamentary procedures to whack the government, in an attempt to shore up the support he needs on the Labour benches.

Parents don't want arcane governance debates that get in the way of focusing on kids.

It would also force the country's organized markets to submit compliance filings within 15 days after that — again, an unheard - of turnaround in a world where minute and arcane rule changes take months, if not years, to debate and implement.

So far, here in the United States, public debate over climate change has been little more than an endless series of arcane scientific and political talking points tossed back and forth on the Internet between those who believe AGW will destroy the planet and those who believe the whole thing is a massive hoax.

«4 debates over arcane points substituted for real debate of politics and values.»

In a relatively short period of time, the debate over patent reform has transformed an arcane, low - salience issue into one that sparks fierce controversy and national headlines.

FATHERS: For the purposes of this dialogue, we are not concerned with the arcane and technical debate as to whether there is such a thing as Parental Alienation Syndrome.