Sentences with phrase «arguments of equal»

Stronger or weaker inductive reasoning, or even inductive arguments of equal strength, may both be held true while reaching opposite conclusions.

It is simply not a choice between two arguments of equal weight.

Not exact matches

Denying Christianity is vile??? I'm an atheist and believe in equal treatment for everyone... and if your ideas / arguments don't withstand the rigor of doubt, then they are meaningless, worthless positions to maintain.

I love the argument he makes, even while I am a progressive Christian who accepts homosexuals as equals in the eyes of God.

Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.

You have yet to directly respond to the specific points I've made at least three times now, i.e.: 1) the immutable good nature argument is simply unsupported definitional fiat (god can be equally described as malevolent or apathetic with equal support); 2) the immutable good nature argument presents a source of morality beyond god's direct control placing the argument in the god says so because it is good prong of the dilemma; and 3) the argument suggests god is not omnipotent because god is constrained to only a limited set of potential behaviors.

«Full and free discourse» is, in other words, a summary expression of the internal conditions of discourse noted earlier: equal freedom of all participants to advance and contest any claim and the arguments for it, and uncompromised commitment on the part all participants to seek the truth.

Accordingly, its necessary conditions include equal freedom for all participants to advance and contest any claim and the arguments for it; the absence of internal coercion in the form of strategic activity or, stated positively, uncompromised commitment on the part of all participants to seek the truth; and the absence of external coercion that might influence the acceptance or contestation of claims (cf. Habermas, Theory 25; Habermas, Justification 31).

For musical people, who can not avoid following the argument of whatever piece sounds in their ear, this abundance of directionless noise is a torture equal to the method of sending a prisoner insane from constant drips of water on his forehead.

The argument that there is no single correct perception of what is proper and good for man leads, paradoxically, to the conclusion that there is a proper and good political regime — a regime based on the equal recognition of rights.

However, although in the analysis of predicate denial («Socrates is not ill» equals «Socrates is well») that which it denies (illness) is replaced by something else (health), Reese's argument can be refuted by pointing out that in «Socrates does not exist» Socrates» physical existence is not replaced by something else.

This is why I believe it's so important to study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:

This argument» in the mouths of death penalty opponents committed to the sanctity, or at least equal dignity, of every human being» comes perilously close to suggesting that we should use an execution of one of our fellow citizens as a means to desired ends.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

Attorney Rogers calls that argument «farfetched»: «American common law and statutes that protect the sanctity of the dead and the sensibilities of the living apply with equal force, irrespective of the religion of the deceased or of the next of kin.»

(Take Basil of Caesarea's argument that the Holy Spirit was an equal part of the Godhead because He had always been so worshipped.)

This is why the Christian faith, when it is made vital in terms of the equal worth of all persons to God, is a more effective solvent of ill feeling than argument, even as a sense of sin about race prejudice is a necessary prelude to repentance and change.

But I intend my arguments to have an equal impact on the supporters of both (4a) and (4b).

All that said, Equal Liberty should be appreciated as an improvement on strict no - aid versions of church - state separation and welcomed as a powerful response to those who contend that our Constitution requires a naked public square or a civil society evacuated of religious argument and expression.

«Unsecularizing the academy» and getting the scholarly elite to accept the philosophical viability of religious reason as an equal player in intellectual argument is not the first step towards God's reentrance into the consciousness of modern society.

Ligue 1 is at least as strong as the Portuguese league (I say more competitive but for the sake of argument lets just put equal).

Liverpool's front three of Salah, Firmino and Mane have no historical equal statistically, but silverware can end the «best - ever» argument for good.

Prepare a school snack that is gluten, dairy, nut, egg and soy free and ensure all portions are exactly equal to the 1 / 100th of an inch to avoid any arguments over who got more.

A politics of fairness and equality is about both (i) making an argument across the whole of society that a fairer and more equal society is in our collective enlightened self - interest, using the arguments of Richard Wilkinson, etc on issues like crime, general well - being, and that there are benefits of fairness for those at the top too.

But these can not be purely needs - based accounts since their foundation is that they are arguments about the fair and equal distribution of autonomy.»

Part of the Senate coalition's argument has been it would provide equal input for both sides to bring legislation to the floor for a vote.

For example, even though close to equal CGT rates was in the Agreement itself, that did not prove sacrosanct, and the Tory right won most of the argument there.

Cuomo said there are a number of strong arguments the legislation is unconstitutional, pointing to states» rights to tax, citizens» rights not to be double taxed, and the Equal Protection Clause.

Appeals are made in the name of «fairness»: People touting this argument say, «We should just teach kids both sides because there are exactly two sides, in equal proportions,» even though there aren't, Rosenau says.

«I think people thought that if by chance the two cardinals were provably equal, the proof would maybe be surprising, but it would be some short, clever argument that doesn't involve building any real machinery,» said Justin Moore, a mathematician at Cornell University who has published a brief overview of Malliaris and Shelah's proof.

A new study could add to the argument over equal pay in the ranks of medicine: Older patients treated by female doctors tend to do better than those treated by males.

Although the first tenet of the dioxin - based argument for vegetarianism, that dioxins are potent human carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, reproductive disruptors, and immune disruptors appears to be false or irrelevant to humans at the levels at which they are exposed, it is still sensible for us to err on the side of caution and, ceteris paribus (all things being equal), opt for a lower dioxin intake over a higher one.

From this pattern, Polley's film seems to forward an argument about autobiography and documentary filmmaking: that these are plural, collaborative genres most effectively and truthfully made through a chorus of many and diverse voices, a «medley» as her other sister, Susy, describes it, each given freedom as well as equal weight.

On a more practical level, there's an argument to be made that, while getting a film into production is never easy, horror is a friendlier entryway to the business, which might explain why we're seeing an unprecedented (though hardly equal) number of women in genre.

Scalia, as mentioned above, sometimes seemed to accept this argument and agreed that the original understanding of the equal protection clause could not justify the outcome in Brown.

I was disappointed and frustrated by the Commentary written by Gerald Skoog, «We Must Not Succumb to Specious Arguments for Equal Time,» which appeared in the January 26 edition of Education Week.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

Even if I agree for the sake of argument that books are precious snowflakes, it doesn't follow that Amazon is therefore obliged to sell them at all, much less sell them on equal terms to the books of Publishers who do have a contract.That this argument gets any coverage at all underscores the desperate need for improved media literacy in this country.

I've also seen authors requesting or expecting a narrator to share at least half of the burden of promotion and marketing, with the argument that since they have an equal portion in the profits, they should share an equal portion in the costs (financial, time, energy) of marketing.

While the graphs and statistics are necessary to their argument, I would have liked first - person accounts of life in equal and unequal societies, and interviews with researchers about their work and its implications.

Although argument essay topics may be different, academic rules are equal for all types of essay writings.

He added: «There's an argument that you sometimes see that «a download is not equal to a lost sale, because that person wouldn't have bought it anyway», and there's varying evidence on that, but it's very much a static analysis of a dynamic problem, because if you normalise the practice of pirating books, you erode incentive for people to pay for them, so eventually, people who would have bought them stop doing so.»

In fact, I'd make the opposite argument: by giving all the premiers an «equal weighted» position at First Ministers» conferences, the 140,000 residents of PEI have a representation that is way out of proportion.

An argument commonly proposed in favor of equal - weight strategies is the significantly higher diversification relative to the Fundamental Index strategy.

If you look at its history of product development and units sold, there's a pretty strong argument that handheld systems have always been a top priority for Nintendo, at least equal to their consoles.

Together, they present an argument for Báez as one of our most gifted and relevant young artists working today, one whose exquisite works - on - paper are set apart by their devotion to poetry and politics, abstraction and narrative, history and fantasy in equal measure.

Yet their show also vigorously reminds us of what a smart young artist once told me: Pluralism doesn't equal peaceful coexistence; it just means more sides to the argument.

So given equal scientific weight to their arguments, the argument of the alarmist is rationally of greater policy consequence and should be given more attention, without it being cast as part of the mainstream.

The idea of all things being equal the best solution is the most simple does not apply to your argument; simply because all things are not equal.

Now, as Leslie Kaufman reports in The Times, there appears to be some overlap emerging between those pressing for equal time for non-evolutionary explanations for life's diversity and those demanding equal time for skeptics» arguments about the causes and significance of climate change.