Sentences with phrase «argument on a contradiction»

Not exact matches

a) instead of * agreeing * that there are no contradictions, see if you can actually understand the argument being made (in this case: that there are NOT contradictions — especially since that is a widely held opinion of those on the opposite end of this debate).

Although I shall not spell out the argument here, I think that there is an implicit contradiction in holding that we depend on God, who timelessly knows all our acts, past or future as they may be for us now, and yet our present reality does not necessitate our future acts.

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In his letter of December 10, 1934 Brightman shares Hartshorne's worry, «that other selves are merely inferred but never given,» and goes on to present his own empiricist colors «I'd like to be able to make sense out of the idea of a literal participation in other selves... whenever I try, I find myself landed in contradiction, in epistemological chaos, and in unfaithfulness to experience...» Brightman's argument is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «experience»), «is exclusively a member of me,» but the object of that intuition is «always problematic and distinct from the conscious experience which refers to it.»

No offence but I doubt I could read any argument on your site about «moral issue» or «apparent contradiction» that I haven't read elsewhere and I am done with silly conversations that are about point scoring between atheism and Christianity.

Before answering Tommaso Maria Gras» argument, I have to admit that I am thrown off by the phrase «the gnostic dream of building paradise on earth,» which is about as total a contradiction in terms as one could imagine.

But they want our trade to be conducted on WTO's terms with the rest of the world — which is the bigger proportion of our trade and the faster - growing part of our trade — which demonstrates their argument is an absurd contradiction.»

Turing attended Wittgenstein's lectures on the philosophy of mathematics in Cambridge in 1939 and disagreed strongly with a line of argument that Wittgenstein was pursuing which wanted to allow contradictions to exist in mathematical systems.

There are signs such changes are starting to occur, both in formal inquiries like the Muir Russell report and United Nations review of the climate panel's procedures, but also even on the blogosphere, where informed individuals with varied views on climate and energy policy are no longer simply throwing verbal bombs at each other in endless rounds of contradiction and instead shifting to constructive argument.

I frequently try to highlight notable contributions of non-anonymous readers as a way to keep the discourse here constructive and focused more on argument and less on contradiction (this link goes to the famous Monty Python skit delineating the difference).

Then when they go on to post another argument for «It's not us», we can point out their contradiction again.

Climate science debates occur every day in the blogosphere and on cable news shows, but this particular fight about a major temperature record (and therefore, major news story) highlights the extent to which many boil down to mere contradiction and rejections of facts, rather than arguments based on competing lines of evidence.

No answer there, until VTG's partial answer (I'm now not sure it was an answer because of the reference to the paper Judith co-authored, and as has been pointed out, that paper may just be an argument based on certain assumptions that would make my question inapplicable, although the question as to whether Judith's assertion about CO2 / ACO2 «dominance» is in contradiction to Lewis» range of sensitivity may still be a valid question, I think).