Sentences with phrase «basically arguing from»

They are basically arguing from a subjective position, rather than a quantitative one.)

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It seems to me that you are basically arguing that we should insulate the Canadian market from the world market, which I think is a bad idea.

John Calvin, the great European predecessor of the New England Puritans, working carefully from a basically Augustinian starting point, had argued that a well - ordered nonmonarchical church could operate symbiotically with a well - ordered polity, namely the city - republic of Geneva, to create an ethical social order.

Even I, although I have argued throughout this chapter for understanding the ministry basically from a monoepiscopal point of view, have sometimes been nostalgic about the first century, where everybody seemed so keen and enthusiastic (literally filled with God) that things got done and «offices» were not established.

Owen Barfield is a British literary theorist and philologist who has extrapolated from Goethe, Coleridge, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Friedrich Max Muller in order to argue that language is basically and naturally metaphorical.8 Reasoning from this thesis, Barfield has also had some provocative things to say about the evolution of consciousness.9

In this paper I have argued that his wide extension of a paradigm derived from reflection about the relation of the psyche to the brain has proved fruitful in carrying forward a basically Whiteheadian way of overcoming reductionism.

He basically argued that large inherited wealth is immoral, as it is actively harmful to the people that receive it, and does no good for the people from which it was originally extracted.

Why West Antarctica is warming is just beginning to be explored, but in our paper we argue that it basically has to do enhanced meridional flow — there is more warm air reaching West Antarctica from farther north (that is, from warmer, lower latitudes).

The defendants also argue that the plaintiffs failed to prove they are members of a «suspect class,» which basically means plaintiffs didn't prove that school districts harmed a specific group — in this case, minority kids from low - income families — by moving ineffective teachers into schools populated by members of the group.

Around 1966 — 67, he wrote «Abstract Mannerism» in which he juxtaposes a well - known quotation about the paradigmatic status of the framing edge for modernist painting from Greenberg's essay ««American - Type» Painting» with a quotation about the role of the frame in Mannerist painting from a book by Jacques Bousquet to demonstrate that the two authors are basically arguing the same thing.

You're basically arguing that fewer clouds are now being seeded because based on the reduced GCR flux from a solar irradiance increase 60 + years ago.

You are basically arguing that «The Environment» is somehow entirely mutually exclusive from Agriculture and more particularly in your comments to me... irrigated agriculture.

From his perch in environmentalist haven Seattle, he argues that climate movement heroes such as writer Bill McKibben of 350.org and former NASA scientist James Hansen are basically full of it.

Steve's comment is basically using the excuse that some other graph from AR4 was wrong too and then using that to argue it justifies doing it wrong in AR5.