Sentences with phrase «obvious arguments in»

There are not many obvious arguments in favour of a status quo where one house of parliament has nearly 800 members, the majority of whom were appointed by prime ministerial patronage.

Not exact matches

The arguments for participating in such off - the - record briefings are fairly obvious, just as they were for technology titans like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Apple CEO Tim Cook, who got roped into a tech summit with Trump at the Trump Tower last week.

The Court of Appeal rejected the arguments, saying Mars Canada had an obvious interest in defending its trademark rights, and it did sustain actual damages given that its sales were cannibalized by the grey market products.

The logic of that argument can be as easily refuted as the logic in your last argument for obvious reasons.

The Bishop rightly alerts the listeners to the obvious self - refuting nature of scientism; he emphasises that truth can surely be found in non-scientific forms such as poetry and literature; and then finally, he offers the building blocks for a philosophical argument that the intelligibility of the universe, and thereby the possibility of any science, in some way demonstrates a thinking mind behind the universe.

This is played for laughs later in season, but the real comedy is how obvious it probably comes off to everyone watching that there's no real argument here.

Chad, Lee Strobel did not have a SINGLE argument in any of his books that was not either an obvious logical fallacy or an equally obvious misuse of statistics.

Even in its more sophisticated guise, such as the argument of Immanuel Kant that life in heaven is to be a due adjustment of affairs after the obvious evil known and experienced in mundane life, there is for many people little meaning.

For this reason they fail in two obvious ways: they regress infinitely in their argument, with a neurotic curiosity, and they divide incessantly into more and more sects which destroy the unity of the church.

Despite their very obvious christian undertones, I though that the last book contained an argument against religion (more - so organized religion, which is a bit different), where the donkey and the monkey pretend to respectively be and be acting for Aslan (the Jesus symbol) and their actions result in widespread chaos, and the eventual collapse of Narnia.

In any event, the point of these broad generalizations, to all of which there are obvious exceptions, is only to explain why the argument I now propose to develop seems to me to be relevant to this symposium.

When we allow Church teaching and biblical proclamation to share in a common claim to truth, the obvious differences, the puzzling divergences, and the unexpected harmonies will naturally compel our minds and draw us into elaborate arguments that interweave theological and biblical analysis.

Hartshorne lists some qualifications on theism that are to him essential: a principle of dual transcendence» and a belief in certain «a priori» arguments (actually six of them) that are claimed to be «free from obvious fallacy» and that are suitably arranged disjunctively.

While the recent form of the Under - 21s side might be a strong argument against that with a group of talented young players on show, the point he makes about the Italian, Spanish and French leagues providing an obvious spine of homegrown players in their respective All - Star teams is true.

ive grown tired of hearing we should sign reus he just recently signed a new contract in February so I don't see why Dortmund would even consider selling him and the argument that we can offer champions league football isn't strong enough because he signed that contract when it was pretty obvious Dortmund wouldn't be in it so it won't sway him

Although it seems a bit far - fetched, there is obvious reason in such an argument, as Salah has boasted an eye for goal, technical quality along with pace and movement that would arguably suit Barcelona's style perfectly if he was deployed on the wing.

Caring was simply pointing out what is obvious, mainly that you are more interested in making your case by kicking a woman who is already down than you are making a reasoned argument.

It played a small part in the Scottish referendum last time but the SNP were able to shut the issue down to a point by making the obvious argument that Britain was able to keep the pound in the EU, so Scotland should be able to too.

The most obvious politician's argument against funding research in pure mathematics is that it costs money and it isn't useful.

«There are obvious arguments for what the governor is proposing,» Mauro said in an interview last week.

Lee Smolin, a theoretical physicist at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, and a skeptic of the anthropic principle, says the paper's argument is a novel one and that on first reading he didn't see any obvious mistakes.

«And if the examiner raises an objection that the invention is not inventive enough, we can submit arguments demonstrating to the examiner that our invention is not obvious in the light of what has previously been done.»

Regardless, the most obvious flaw in this argument is that the planet wasn't warming 1,470 years ago.

While some argue that all films should be criticised equally, in T3 «s defense is the obvious «what can you expect from a outrageously budgeted film about alien cars and trucks» argument.

How out of touch from what is happening in schools and classrooms has our leadership become that they refuse to acknowledge the obvious faults in their own arguments?

In the early 1980s it was not yet obvious how neoliberals would make use of the economic crisis in impoverished communities — and the argument that school failure was the leading cause of economic misery — to make their case for a radical transformation and privatization of public educatioIn the early 1980s it was not yet obvious how neoliberals would make use of the economic crisis in impoverished communities — and the argument that school failure was the leading cause of economic misery — to make their case for a radical transformation and privatization of public educatioin impoverished communities — and the argument that school failure was the leading cause of economic misery — to make their case for a radical transformation and privatization of public education.

I don't know what your position was in the past, but if this is your first call of injustice in KU, then it seems obvious that you're biased toward the welfare of shorter length work authors and are creating arguments to fit that mindset.

To me this is obvious, but I've learned to include this sort of disclaimer to make it marginally more difficult for dodgers, denialists, and dudgeon demons to avoid actual thought in favor of straw man arguments and other mischaracterizations of what I've actually said.

At first glance, your subtitles might not be obvious that these allow various arguments in your body.

Honestly, from a BES administration standpoint, I could care less, aside from obvious cost reduction points to help aide in the ever - annoying RIMM vs MSFT arguments that are being fueled every single day.

Once again, we're always keen to hear other points of view, or to have someone point out the obvious holes in the argument.

Given all of these problems and the lack of any obvious solution in the short run, how do you make the argument that index investing is still relevant?

From encouraging people to exercise more, to breaking up arguments and the obvious benefit of providing companionship, a dog in the house provides a fantastic life changing experience.

Again, this is obvious and so unnecessary to include in your argument.

The arguments in favor of drilling are so overwhelmingly obvious to the majority of the American public that any politician who supports the status quo of $ 4 / gal.

While others are more qualified to deconstruct here quantitative arguments in pointing out apparently obvious errors when placed in the context of the quality of the argument itself, in the context of relevance pertaining to scientific consensus, Judith Curry's argument loses substance as well as relevance.

I testified at the state legislature in Louisiana against one of the no - nothing bills you mentioned, and even though it was painfully obvious that the legislators had no real intention of being affected by any argument we might make, it was a necessary «waste» of time.

One may put up all kinds of arguments to discredit this obvious scientific fact of life in 2018 ongoing, and get lost in distractions about mathematical trend lines extracting out la nina and el ninos, but that is entirely IRRELEVANT to what I have written, and am addressing here, in my own way.

The obvious answer (from someone who is indeed receptive to arguments for lower - than - consensus climate sensitivities) is that it was on a par with recent hot years because temperatures at US latitudes of the globe really weren't as much cooler in the 1930s / 1940s (compared to the present) than GISS / Hadley's best estimates (from often sketchy global coverage) suggest.

In addition the argument about mismatched frequencies is, I think, an intuitively obvious point.

I am using this easy, obvious, variable — the energy involved in the transportation topology — to support my argument about the non-linear relationship between declining population and declining «Liquidation of Natural Capital.»

Ray's answer makes it obvious (for me) that reality is very complex and far from being explainable by simple, hand - made arguments for the general audience; that's why I think that trying to explain «simply» the very complex phenomena involved in radiation transfer is just lost time - and in my opinion the REAL issues associated with social impacts of GW are not primarily associated with the detailed physics of the phenomenon.

Maybe this is already included in the arguments, just not in a way that was obvious to me.

People who point out the obvious errors in McPhersons arguments are not «detractors».

Did I miss something here, or did Trenberth try to pull a fast one by conflating GW with AGW, in addition to the obvious argument from authority?

Further, he makes the classic logical error of «begging the question» or assuming the proposition as part of the «proof» when he says Given that global warming is «unequivocal», and is «very likely» due to human activities to quote the 2007 IPCC report, in addition to the obvious argument from authority.

Why haven't you pointed out the obvious flaws in his argument.?

Hey Memphis, if I want to point up a fallacy in someone's argument, all I have to do is call them a liar and then it's obvious what the fallacy in their argument was.

Example 1 (not paying attention): (1) You did start with the authority (and consensus) argument when claiming that: I already told you it wasn't intended as an argument, it should have been obvious that it was tongue - in - cheek hyperbole.

But really the first and most obvious argument requires little in the way of expertise: The vastly cheaper, affordable and near - term achievable options for efficiency and conservation have really hardly been touched.