Sentences with phrase «arguments against self»

It's not just having to arrange for your own editing via the trad publishing route — when I read arguments against self - pubbing, I always hear about how hard it is to market your books and find your readers.

The problem with this is that his own arguments against self - publishing would cut against these so - called hybrid authors when it comes to their self - published work.

What were the arguments against self - publishing however?

I believe poor spelling and grammar comprised 75 % of your argument against self - publishing.

There are many possible reasons why literary fiction has fewer examples of successful self - published works, but perhaps the simplest answer is that readers of the genre are served sufficiently by traditional publishers (This is a powerful argument against self - publishing literary fiction to make money which means I'll have to do it to make art)

(so quoted in Financial Times) That's more of a food hyperbole than a logical argument against self sufficiency efforts.

Not exact matches

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

The weaker the argument from the New Testament becomes, the stronger the teleological argument becomes - and so to use the «too extraordinary» argument as an argument against the existence of God is literally self - refuting!

The claim of privileged access is not saved by arguing that each of us intuitively grasps this self without analysis or argument, that each of us singly grasps the essence of experience in this intuition, and that the analysis or argument is required only (1) to call it to the attention of those who have not noticed it, or (2) to defend the claim of such an intuition against those who deny it for no or bad reasons, or (3) to develop its implications and describe its content.

More specifically, I shall contend that Hartshorne's arguments against the Thomistic denials of internal relatedness, potentiality, complexity, and contingency (of some properties), arguments that I take to be wholly successful, do not, as Hartshorne seems to suppose, suffice also to dispose of the Thomistic doctrines of omnipotence, immutability, nontemporality, creation ex nihilo, and unsurpassibility even by self.

Though it is not quite true that Gustafson and other liberals «never enter into argument against Barth,» there is a pronounced tendency in liberal theology to dismiss Barth's idea of truth as the self - authenticating word of God.

Reno develops several lines of argument against the view that respect for human dignity is consistent with, let alone requires, that liberty be understood as the individual's projection of the self onto the universe.

One of the stupidest arguments against atheism is the one that only believers has a sense of something greater than one's self.

Thomas Aquinas, the most outstanding of Catholic theologians, gave three succinct arguments why suicide is a sin against self, neighbor and God.

But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians — when they are somber and joyless, when they are self - righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.»

Therefore, I find the internal inconsistency and self - contradiction of many arguments against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) simply astounding.

This cautioned wisdom runs counter to the popular notion that the media ought to operate on an honours system of self - regulation, the proponents of which tend to hide behind arguments against the «risks» posed by censorship.

In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little more than distractions, snippets of conversations taken out of context, and self - serving lies from two central witnesses.

The most common argument against the validity of indie publishing is that all self - publishing books are unprofessional.

With both camps still divided on the self - publishing front, the same tired arguments for and against the concept are still being levied: «self - published books are notoriously bad» versus «every book has the right to be published.»

This isn't an argument for or against self - publishing ebooks.

More specifically, when opponents of climate change policies make self - interest based arguments against the adoption of policies such as cost to the United States, there are no follow - up questions asked by the press about whether those who argue against climate change policies on grounds of cost to the United States are denying that the United States has duties or responsibilities to those outside the United States to prevent harm to them.

What distinguishes ethical issues from economic and scientific arguments about climate change is that ethics is about duties, obligations, and responsibilities to others while economic and scientific arguments are usually understood to be about «value - neutral» «facts» which once established have usually been deployed in arguments against action on climate change based upon self - interest.

Our earlier post (and see update) mentioned that Eugene Volokh had written about the contours of a constitutional right to self - defense, and now the UCLA lawprof (at the newly un-paywalled site of his Conspiracy) has sketched a possible argument against the Philly Plexiglass measure along those lines.

Brian, your argument against higher deposits, as distinct from the legal requirement for any deposit, is self defeating.