Sentences with phrase «arguing by analogy»

Even where parallels exist, therefore, arguing by analogy encourages us to overlook what is relevant in favour of what has been elevated by popular history.

In support of this contention, it might be pointed out to me that we can argue by analogy to the self - transcendence of the universe from instances of transcendence which can be empirically verified.

One may then generalize this intuition and, employing the criterion of «active singularity,» further argue by analogy that whatever is experienced to act as one must also feel as one, whether this be an animal or a cell, a molecule or an atom (1970a, 36, 143f.

Reichenbach argues that since this argument «is identical in form to that which argues by analogy from the existence of my mind to that of other minds, it is fraught with all the same problems which plague the latter» (EGG 194 - 95).

In fact, while there's a lot of stuff in there that's argued by analogy or handwaving, and which therefore isn't useful, the pi = 4 thing is based on a geometrical argument already known to mathematicians.

One could argue by analogy (do lawyers know any other way?)

I can also argue by analogy to the preponderance of evidence floor set not only in federal law, but also in the law of the sister jurisdictions of Maryland and the District of Columbia (but watch out for hostility by some judges towards those jurisdictions, to the extent they might view Maryland and D.C. law as too lenient for criminal defendants).

Not exact matches

To put it otherwise, both produce a concept of God by arguing from the world to God by means of analogy.

Another quibble: you assert, without arguing for it, that «The best analogy for the differential treatment of same - sex couples by offering them civil partnership as opposed to civil marriage is in the systematic prejudice suffered by African - Americans in the United States».

By analogy, we argue that training is equally insufficient and incomplete as a model for preparing readers.

By analogy, you seem to be arguing that if the water level (heat) in a lake goes up because rain increases the inflow (insolation) everything is fine, but if the water level goes up because building a dam (GHGs) reduces the outflow the laws of the universe have been violated.

An analogy would be to post a 0.5 mile per hour speed limit on the interstate highways as a needed safety measure, and then argue that driving at 50 mph is horribly dangerous because it exceeds the recommended safe speed by a hundred-fold.

Mabey's forthcoming The Cabaret of Plants argues for «a new language» with which to accommodate the «selfhood» of plants: «metaphor and analogy may be the best we can do, but they will have to be toughened by an acceptance that the plant world is a parallel life system to our own, intimately connected with it, but still existentially different».

Tzedakis et al. (2012); meanwhile Rohling et al. (2010) argued that even by analogy with the long past cycle (stage 11) we should be heading already into a glacial period.

Back in the 1970s, by analogy with the sketchy chronology then available for the last cycle or two, it was plausibly argued that it would begin within a few thousand years.

Commentators have also argued that the judgment has no bearing on arbitrations carried out under the ICSID Convention, and while this is true in a formal sense, it seems equally clear that ICSID tribunals may interpret and apply EU law, with the Court's conclusion extending, by analogy, to them as well.

When students argue in a brief or oral argument that a particular precedent should be followed, they engage in reasoning by analogy.102

They also argued, by analogy if the 15 - year limitation period applied to all outstanding invoices, the 407 ETR would stand to make between $ 1.5 billion and $ 4.1 billion as a result of accrued interest.

The government, however, argued that there was no true analogy because the applicants were connected by birth rather than by a decision to enter into a formal relationship recognised by law.

Instead of interpreting the concept of public body in such a broad way as to include DVGW, the Advocate General choose to apply the Bosman, Viking and Laval cases by analogy, arguing that «rules of any other nature aimed at regulating in a collective manner gainful employment, self - employment and the provision of services» should also be extended to the case at hand and the free movement of goods.

The right to abortion — even abortion - as - self - defense — ought not have been constitutionalized, they'd argue, and ought not be broadened by analogy.