Sentences with phrase «argument against the possibility»

Hence, the argument against the possibility that theology can illuminate ethics fails.

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.

(6) The sixth argument against the possibility of total non-being is the claim that negation always refers to «othering.»

The basic form of the anthropological argument against the possibility of life after death has already been answered in what has gone before.

«There is a strong argument against the possibility that matter and anti-matter exist in equal numbers in our universe but are for some reason separated.

Not exact matches

However, even St. Thomas's own argument against a real transcendental relation of God to the world indicates that not all possibilities have been considered.

Even if one attempts by subtle arguments to show that somehow men really accept Christ in their very seeming rejection of him (because the Christian witness they encounter is either unworthy or incomplete and so on), there is still always the possibility of sin, of closing in on oneself against Christ.

His lyrical envisioning of a new possibility is given in the presence of and in argument against the Babylonian gods, Babylonian kings and Babylonian definitions of reality (see chapters 46 and 47).

Kirk Stark, a professor of tax law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, said there is a slight possibility that a federalism argument against limiting the SALT deduction could gain traction.

The possibility that scofflaw traders will violate the regulations should certainly be a consideration — but not an argument against using the system.

One argument against the specific conclusion of missing growth rings is that trees are carefully cross-dated when forming regional chronologies, and this precludes the possibility of chronological errors.

He mentions, as an instance, the possibility of making this kind of argument against gay marriage.

The problem is the way that seemingly a priori facts operated within the environmentalist's argument, and stood against any possibility of alternative.

Weighing up the arguments for and against the rule, he concluded that there was insufficient justification for the House of Lords to depart from it, although he did not rule out the possibility that empirical research (for example, by the Law Commission) might justify this.

The top argument against adding your headshot to your resume is the possibility of discrimination.