Sentences with phrase «at the arguments used»

Most supporters seemed to have convinced themselves otherwise, but let's look at the arguments used.

Not exact matches

I've looked previously at some of the arguments made by the housing bears, for example in «Housing crash predictions using wrong indicators.»

For me, though I learned a lot in college, the skill I continue to use on a daily basis in my consulting business is the ability to look at my own argument or point of view and examine why someone else might have a different perspective.

Neal and Taylor's argument was rooted in math: there were more consumers than there were IT users, which meant that over the long run the rate of improvement in consumer technologies would exceed that of enterprise - focused ones; IT departments needed to grapple with increased demand from their users to use the same technology they used at home.

Fast - forward to today, same argument that James Damore, an engineer at Google, uses...

Fortunately, Gensler isn't running the SEC but his legal arguments can and probably will be used at some point.

Using the argument of neutrality is too dismissive to the more pertinent fact at hand — likely about $ 300k was deployed to control $ 1.6 m, to be used in any way shape or form when it is all said and done... retiring abroad, funding their kids college, starting their tube meat meat truck business after they get tired of the lawyering rat race, etc etc..

The arguments used by the Minister of State for Finance were not unlike those against the changes made at that time.

But at least he knows — if I read him correctly — that religious communities must stop using utilitarian arguments to buttress their public appeals.

Precisely to ensure constructive dialogue, the Church at all levels must always make use of those fully qualified in their scientific discipline when looking to engage in any scientific question, so as to inform the argument with clear and precise thinking.

To bolster the argument, in all of the other places in the Gospels where Jesus used the term «this generation,» he was referring to people living at that time.

All religious attempts at rational arguments must instead use dishonest forms of argumentation due to that total lack of evidence.

Because of the «ism» at the end, making it appear as if it were an ideology, and the fact that they do not understand the definition of the word... and many seek to use a «false equivalency» in a bid to bolster their failed arguments, too.

Her argument against this position, as best I can discern and summarize it, is that each new divine occasion would in turn be irresistibly objectified or «superjected» (she uses this as a verb) back into the world, which would «bind the present irrevocably to the past, to sacrifice spontaneity and autonomy at the altar of necessity» (p. 164).

that is, «The world is thus [italics mine] faced by the paradox that, at least in its highest actualities, it craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past, with its familiarities and its loved ones,» refers, because of the use of the word thus, to a previous argument that provides the grounds on which Whitehead bases his assertion that the world requires both novelty and order.

and because what is being asked doesn't fit in with what they choose to do... they reject God and use whatever arguments are at hand to support their position.

For example, the idea of a heavenly contract gained cogency among Puritan clerics at least in part because it was used to support specific arguments against radical heretics» ideas about adult baptism and free will.

Such a creator is not the personalized one held by believers in this forum and can not be arrived at using said arguments due to contradiction with scripture.

Julie in Austin, (I actual used to go to school at the Jewish temple in downtown Austin) «In other cases, it assumes (as often do the arguments of Atheists) the very conclusion it is trying to reach».

You are filling in any unanswered questions by science, at this point... using the «God of the Gaps» argument.

Mike, not me has just used your abhorrence at the idea of carrying out an act that his god specifically commands as an argument that you have instilled in you an objective sense of right and wrong... of which that same god is the source.

The argument is standard because it has been used throughout history, at various times and places, to argue for the moral inferiority of a marginalized class of people.

Although at first this argument was used to support a conservative form of Catholicism, as time passed it could also be used to derive norms by which religious beliefs could be judged.

If I want to argue with my Gelukpa Buddhist friends, it is of no use to quote the Bible to them as an authoritative text, and hope to get anywhere thereby — not, at least, unless I'm prepared to offer a prior and independent argument as to why the Bible should be regarded as an authoritative text.

Well, FAITH, there's the problem... that gibberish in the bible was just made up by «some guy» to keep the peasants behaving in a manner that whomever wrote it thought was a good way to behave... some of those guys were wise, yes, and there are benefits to following some of the «guidelines» set forth in the Bible... but it's a circular argument to use the Bible as a reason to have faith, because you have to first BELIEVE in the deity, THEN believe that the deity inspired the writings, THEN you can take the writings as «truth»... I'm two steps back, not believing in the deity at all (Yay, Atheists!

Thus «x» is any propositional function with individuals for its arguments, «(x) x» means «there exists some individual in the universal domain that has the property».4 At the lowest level in the theory of types there are individuals — a, b, c, d,... n, but the precise identification of the individuals is left open since the system of logic was only to be used as a foundation for pure mathematics.

When at last it became fashionable to admit that there are irreconcilable contradictions in the four versions of the empty tomb story, this fact was used by many as a popular argument in favor of their essential reliability.

While I may use insulting language at times, I in no way say your argument is invalid because of those things, so your ad hominem claim is false.

Too expensive, said others (an argument that politicians still use, apparently forgetting that we've managed to scrape together at least $ 150 billion to invade and occupy (Iraq).

Before we get into the argument at all it is necessary to make clear in what sense the term imagination is here used.

Are you guys really still using the «747» for your silly attempt at «it's too complex for mere chance» argument?

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.

We may reconstruct the adjectives and phrases used to describe him both at the cocktail parties of the Corinthian elite (if the latter was aware of him at all) and in the pubs where his petit - bourgeois clientele would gather: «fundamentalist,» «simplistic,» «compulsive - neurotic,» «asking too much of sensible people,» «never listening to the other side of an argument,» «perhaps a little crazy» — in sum, some thing of a disagreeable fanatic.

By Richard Allen Greene, CNN London (CNN)- Christian activists in Britain are furious at the arguments their government will use against them when Europe's highest court considers whether employees have the right to wear crosses that show over their uniforms.

«The argument adopted by consumer groups in the USA is that access is not universal service - that the telephone should be priced at a level which makes it possible for disadvantaged groups to use it for social reasons rather than simply as an emergency service».

The fact that you can't figure out how to write «psychiatrists» or even «shrinks», but have to use the pathetic «physic», which doesn't make any sense at all, is evidence that you're not bright enough to make a cogent argument against gay marriage.

well, if you're talking about them, they can't be all that useless there's is at least 1 use for them, which is for you to talk about them so, there goes your argument cheers

we DO make mistakes as well... but to use that argument is side stepping the issue at the moment

As soon as an animal becomes of no more use to humans, as for example when the products now used from whales are superseded by synthetics, then there are no arguments left for the preservation of whales except that we like looking at them.

To make extensive use of Boyd's argument for Satan's power without dealing at all with his argument for a limitation of divine foreknowledge was, I think, unwarranted.

Speaking from a purely secular perspective though, using hateful terms and calling people names doesn't advance your argument very well... or at all.

The exercise at the end of this chapter can be used to teach this experientially, or a couple can be asked to reenact a recent unproductive argument in front of the group.

At Erfurt the Occamists gave Martin a confidence in logical processes and the use of argument and dialectic which never left him, however much he thundered against it as a way to religious faith.

If you can not use it «to come to any conclusion regarding God or scripture,» then you can't use logic at all, which means, I think, that your argument rests on faith and faith alone.

Our argument at this point is that John 19.37 and Rev. 1.7 are remnants of a Christian exegetical tradition using Zech.

All you guys are great at is repeating the same mistakes every few years and using the same arguments that «MY BOOK SAYS YOU ARE WRONG, HENCE I AM RIGHT» as a argument.

According to Julian Kirby, lead plastics campaigner at Friends of the Earth UK: «What that really casts into quite serious doubt, I think, is the argument that the food packaging industry use quite often which is that we need plastic to avoid food waste.

I used to get into these arguments with guys at work all the time.

JW not for the first time I applaud you with the article you have posted.For all you AKB, s you should note the objectiveness and argument of what JW has said and the rationale he uses to at least understand and consider other fans views, to which of course you are entitled.Me I honestly believe you are Deluded, Outdated and WRONG.Wenger would have had respect if he had gone when he KNEW it was all coming apart.This is not recent this is 7 - 8 seasons ago.But I do sympathise how difficult it must be dragging yourself through these tough tough times on # 9miilion f *** ing a year.All you AKB, s really do need to wake up to the reality of the position we are in and who is responsible for us being there.Who are you going to worship when he finally goes or are you going with him.Pathetic to even try to respond to opinion that is proved by where we are as a club.JW — WE SALUTE YOU

Yes, there's good arguments as to why this cold streak shouldn't hold him down as well, but trying to use that comparison as an example, even an «extreme example» as you put it, is ridiculous at best.