Sentences with phrase «facie sense»

Splitting rural health off may be a good thing for the Nationals, I suppose, but makes little prima facie sense, at least to me, so I hope that works out.

All I can say here is that such a hypothesis regarding the New Testament, which makes such nonsense of its soteriology (a man who merely reveals God can not save us in the way the text says he can and does) and which goes against the prima facie sense of such texts as Philippians 2:6 - 9 and John 20:28, can not long succeed whatever luminaries put their names to it.

Not exact matches

In terms of this principle, I expect, one might speak of the prima facie «rights» of nonhuman animals, at least of those that are conscious, and in a more extended sense of the term, the prima facie «right» of the natural order to its own diversity

The point I am trying to make is this: on the basis of a prima facie examination of human experience, it would seem that there is a basic sense of wonder with regard to there being anything at all.

Rather, the main point I want to make, which is to my mind following a Peircean line, is that intuitions are not explicitly cognitive in the sense of exemplifying prima facie rationality; yet they may and should contribute to explicitly cognitive levels of experience.

Prima facie, it makes little sense.

In my view, it would make little sense to require proof of a prima facie case at the stage of the present proceeding.

7 Over time, liability was expanded to situations where a defendant's conduct was not prima facie «tortious» in the traditional sense (i.e., the conduct would not support an independent basis of tort liability, such as for defamation or copyright infringement), but it nevertheless resulted in economic harm to a plaintiff.