Sentences with phrase «arguing against reality»

The truth is, you're arguing against reality.

(It is noteworthy that today there are those arguing against the reality of this phenomenon from first principles of physics — without acknowledging that it has repeatedly been measured.)

It is not particularly surprising that they could not find one to argue against the reality of carbon emissions - driven global warming, but it still seems a bit of an unfair difference in stature to have the position backed up by corporate - sponsored pseudoscience be represented by a member of Congress, against a man known primarily for shouting «science!»

In April 1998, Art Robinson and his organization the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, along with the Exxon - backed George C. Marshall Institute, co-published the infamous «Oregon Petition» claiming to have collected 17,000 signatories to a document arguing against the realities of global warming.

Either they argue against reality or they argue for it, gaining the ire of the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh and James Inhoff, a political kiss of death.

Along with the Exxon - backed George C. Marshall Institute, Robinson's group co-published the infamous «Oregon Petition» claiming to have collected 17,000 signatories to a document arguing against the realities of global warming.

Not exact matches

In Science and the Modern World, Whitehead argues strongly against the value of pure abstraction because it leads to thinking that is detached from concrete reality and it leads to narrow specialization.

Schubert Ogden, author of The Reality of God and Other Essays and an outstanding process theologian, argues against subjective immortality, which he defines in the second sense, as people»... continuing to exist as subjects for the infinite future.

While the book gives an interesting summary of various authors who have argued that it was the Protestant Reformation that gave rise to atheism, the author fails to note any connection between the rejection (traceable from nominalism) of reason's capacity to know reality, the Protestant Reformation's appeal to faith against reason, intellectual scepticism and current postmodernism.

To say that the word became flesh (1: 14), to insist on Jesus» thirst and weariness, and the reality of his death (20:27), is to argue directly against the basic gnostic idea of the unreality of this world.

Against a purely pragmatic approach, he argued that anyone who tries to deny «the reality of this whole of truth» is caught in a self - contradiction.

Those who argue against same - sex marriage on the basis of its potential to diminish the effectiveness of the institution as a solid foundation for social stability have not thought about the price we have already paid for this personal freedom, or the historical reality that most citizens of Western Nations have already chosen to pay it rather than choose the relative social stability / security of tribalistic collectivism.

Even here in whatever - city - USA, nothing a baby can or can not do makes sense except in light of the mother's body, a biological reality apparently dismissed by those that argue against any and all bedsharing and what they call cosleeping, but which likely explains why most crib - using parents at some point feel the need to bring their babies to bed with them — findings that our mother - baby sleep laboratory here at Notre Dame has helped document scientifically.

Philly Area Students Travel to Syria, Visit Mars - Virtually (Inquirer, Philly.com) Chris Dede argues against integrating augmented reality and virtual reality experiences when prices are high.

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

However if you are a very active investor than selling seems to be a no brainer and it would be hard to argue against this decision as the price does appear to be meaningfully higher than anything in reality.

Arguing against the law is the reality that if we disqualified candidates who tell lies from holding office, George Washington would still be President!

From the outset we argued against excessive measures and for a fair balance reflecting the realities of the recruitment industry.