Sentences with phrase «as rhetorical»

At the other end of the spectrum is the most sophisticated design logic, known as rhetorical.

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Take that last question as rhetorical, I am really asking if «they» would ever have any kind of actionable copyright infringement claim on any work just because their art is in a picture?

I took it as a rhetorical question designed to get you to think about how loss - insurers in a competitive market can be profitable in a world full of loss.

Science matters little in this other than as a rhetorical device to advance cultural ambitions.

But I wouldn't stoop to using a fact like that as rhetorical dirty tricks against YOU.

Gavin Schmidt replied to Steven Mosher over at Real Climate with the following comment which is also applicable in this case: «It's generally not the contrarians who drive better understandings of the science, because most of the contrarian points are completely irrelevant and are used as rhetorical, not scientific, points.

I see it as a rhetorical tool, fairly well embedded in contrarian mythology of the climate science community.

Willis» WUWT post illustrates plainly a statistical mistake that denialists make over-and-over again, which is to fall - back upon demagogic mockery and personal abuse, as a rhetorical trick for evading rational discussion of the confidence - level adjustments that the Bayesian priors associated to physical theory require.

And as a consequence, you posted the list of papers as rhetorical iconography rather than as science.

«It's generally not the contrarians who drive better understandings of the science, because most of the contrarian points are completely irrelevant and are used as rhetorical, not scientific, points.

[Response: It's generally not the contrarians who drive better understandings of the science, because most of the contrarian points are completely irrelevant and are used as rhetorical, not scientific, points.

It is an example only of a thought bubble that has no basis but verbiage and is used as a rhetorical riff on inferior denier science.

(As a rhetorical aside, I wonder if there is anyone else commenting here that has taken graduate level courses devoted entirely to the study of noise?)

You should probably treat my question as rhetorical.

Let us leave that as a rhetorical flourish on your part and assume that you understand that changes in CO2 lag temperature in the ice core record by approximately 800 years.

It is nevertheless a dangerous one that can go wrong in some instances and be quite deceptive as a rhetorical tool for strategic maneuvering in argumentation.

I don't think so, I think that they are criteria that were hand - picked to serve as rhetorical devices in service of confirming a bias.

And the point of Study 1 was not that it works as a rhetorical strategy, but that it exists as a view held by some sceptics.

Solomon took this as a rhetorical challenge, and began searching for evidence to cast doubt on the statement.

Was his statement intended as rhetorical hyperbole or did he intend to convey that the article was written with an intent to deceive?

The tally is being used as a rhetorical tool.

My language is not limited by your determination to use the taking of offense as a rhetorical tactic.

This just in: What Markey introduced as a rhetorical prop may be sprouting legislative wings in the Democrat - controlled Senate, where it could win votes to overturn President Obama's rejection of Keystone XL.

The only exception to this is when I use facetiousness / sarcasm as a rhetorical trick, and I think I do a good job of making it clear that I'm doing so.

I have refuted many of them myself, and often I refute them with info from Real Climate (thanks much), but there is so much of this denial stuff being published as rhetorical blogs, there is little hope for the casual reader.

He should know by now that most of the readers of this blog are on to cherry - picking as a rhetorical tool.

Through these portraits Sherman gained recognition from viewers, making it possible for them to see female stereotypes as rhetorical formulas or clichés.

In the first, he will discuss the development of his work in terms of figuration, not simply traditional mimetic depiction (as opposed to abstraction), but rather a representational complex that can function as a rhetorical platform, an allegorical modality or even as an investigation of social formations.

Presence, absence, objectification, disclosure: the anthropomorphic form reaffirms itself as a rhetorical figure evoking stories which belong not only to the single narrator, but to the whole humanity.

Trained as an urban planner, Wüst came to photography in the «70s as a rhetorical tool for studying the development of cities.

Richard Haden carves hyper - realistic objects out of wood choosing everyday objects as rhetorical devices.

Greenberg meant that as a rhetorical question, a matter of ethical and cultural as well as esthetic values.

It was created as a rhetorical shot at indies, but it was immediately misconstrued as being created and perpetuated by indies, and thus as yet more evidence of their elitism.

@Philipp It may have been intended as a financial planning question, but it may have been intended as a rhetorical question to point out that the proposed HC reform doesn't help the neediest, rather it provides more benefit the more taxable income one has to shelter through an HSA.

Yet, somehow this simple adding - up constraint has been misappropriated as a rhetorical pillar of the campaign against active management.

Note that your statements, as well as rhetorical William Ockham's (I don't know his real name), are pontifications, if measured against this criteria.

Johnson sees the portrayal by Patrick and others of a dysfunctional public school system as a rhetorical ploy to advance narrow private interests, and he hopes that the Senate can keep the bill from coming to a vote where legislators can be pressured into a «for us or against us» position on school choice.

Let's stop using the term «disruptive innovation» as a rhetorical tool and instead use the theory of disruptive innovation to help schools improve.

As far as rhetorical missteps go, alas, it's crippling, and makes me regard the rest of his piece with a jaundiced, let's say poisoned, eye.

As history the scene is defensible — Lincoln's poetic, 272 - word speech was widely printed in newspapers and immediately recognized as a rhetorical marvel — but as drama it's atrocious, a smarmy Hall - of - Presidents moment.

Let's keep my authority respected and leave this as a rhetorical question.

The statement «everything causes cancer» has become a popular hyperbole and one that some people use as rhetorical fodder to excuse their own dietary and lifestyle failures, particularly as they pertain to cancer risk.

At this stage in my evolution as a practitioner, I relate to «science» as a rhetorical tool.

The mayor has seized every opportunity to promote himself as the rhetorical and policy leader of the resistance, rallying along with paleoliberals like Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon and vowing to maintain New York as a sanctuary city in the face of Trump's anti-immigrant push.

As far as a question goes, I'm afraid I'm having to see this as rhetorical.

Whatever Mr Cameron's views on tax, you are a little bit harsh on Professor Laffer's theory, I think, which is far simpler and more eloquent than it is normally presented (including by the 1980s true believers, who largely hijacked it as a rhetorical device to justify tax cuts).

Even though these arguments are portrayed as absolute, scientific fact, these arguments are better understood as a rhetorical strategy to persuade mothers of the health threats to their children (c.f., Best's (1990) work on the construction of the child - victim).

I think I did misread the «half a decade thing» because I've seen that phrasing used elsewhere as a rhetorical move to make an event seem more in the past than it really is.

I suppose you are asking that as a rhetorical question.