Sentences with phrase «argue against this possibility»

In arguing against the possibility of attaining to a neutral standpoint on matters of concern to religious persons, one begins with the axiom that all human activity — and so, by extension, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons — both implies and evinces a commitment to some particular metaphysic, some view as to the way things are and as to how human activity should proceed in that context.

James Madison argued against the possibility of legal slavery; while other delegates from southern states argued for legal protection.

These results seem to argue against the possibility that Acks induction in the brains of workers involved in the formation of a hot defensive bee ball or heat - exposed workers represents mere «heat shock response».

The pigmented subretinal donor cells failed to express two characteristic RPE markers, RPE65 [57] and bestrophin [58], arguing against the possibility that they had undergone full transdifferentiation.

These results suggest that the full - length XMRV genome is present in all 3 clinical samples, and argue against the possibility of mixed infection with other MLV - like retroviruses.

Importantly, the ETLE groups did not differ significantly in MAOA genotype distribution, arguing against the possibility that genotype influenced exposure to traumatic events (χ2 = 0.21, df = 1, P = 0.64).

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Some argue using a permission blockchain would help as it would only allow a few people to fully access the records, but the possibility of having a government official (or just the regular public) know how an individual vote goes against the premise of free and fair elections.

Even in the canons of the Council of Trent (1545 — 1563) nothing spoke against the possibility of divorce and remarriage, he argued.

If, as I think can he argued, neither of these considerations is a cogent argument against the Possibility of any sort of metaphysics of Entity, then the question of the validity of Whitehead's rejection of Aristotle's notion of substance takes on special importance.

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

But it's unclear why the Dems are deciding to target — and, I'd argue, elevate — Paladino, whose real threat to Cuomo is the possibility that he might air a flood of negative ads against the Democrat.

In «Romance of the Vanished Past» [Skeptic], Michael Shermer argues against my book Magicians of the Gods, which describes the possibility of a forgotten episode of civilization in prehistory.

While we can not rule out the possibility that the similar male gametogenic requirement in mice and Drosophila is a coincidence and both evolved independently, the striking similarity in the reproductive defects of loss - of - function mutants of Drosophila and mouse Boule homologs (male specific infertility, global arrest of spermatogenesis, absence of elongating spermatids and mature sperm) argue against such a possibility.

The Toronto Real Estate Board is already pushing back against the possibility of this measure, arguing foreign buyers are a positive force in the local housing market.

Perhaps conditions will remain in place for investors to benefit from these allocations, but the possibility for retrenchment can also be convincingly argued: bond markets allow creditors to borrow against the future, and eventually the future tends to conform to harsh (but logical) economic realities, not feel - good hopes and fictions.1