Sentences with phrase «of persuasive argument»

The course covers creation and delivery of persuasive argument via new media.

No amount of persuasive argument from him is going to convince me anything else happened because authors definitely got the short end of that dipstick while Smashwords will probably benefit nicely from the deal.)

Part of persuasive argument must (in my opinion) include discussing our presuppositions with one another as part of the debate around context so that people see where we are coming from.

He serves up a Procrustean history of suicide and the laws against it, but only to suggest the absence of persuasive argument.

Evidently, there's such a dearth of persuasive arguments in favour of the UN's climate change aspirations that its former officials must spend their time maligning the character of folks who approach these matters with a different analysis.

Not exact matches

Now, you may or may not find that to be a persuasive argument about the state of income inequality in Canada — as our own Chris MacDonald has pointed out, determining the fairness of CEO pay is more complicated than it seems.

Philip Cross followed up his statement that 2nd quarter «GDP will almost certainly be positive» (based on an argument I personally found persuasive) by attacking the 2 - quarter definition of a recession.

Research has shown that after having people actively present persuasive arguments as part of role play, they tend to express positive views that support that argument.

There is high pitch frenzy for B2B leaders today in terms of being confronted internally and externally with persuasive arguments for the latest and greatest new technology or services that promises high returns.

«We've got casinos in Iowa, right across the river from Omaha, and the argument [in favor of changing the law], which is persuasive, is that Nebraskans go over there and deposit all their money in Iowa.

Where Summers is seen, even by some of his supporters, as arrogant and bull - headed, Fischer is a legendary nice guy, deploying a wry smile and persuasive arguments to get his way.

But he brushed off these concerns with a range of arguments that critical masses of voters evidently found persuasive.

I think mutual funds with load are in its way to extinction, but there are many of them still out there and there are many astute commission - based advisors who will present persuasive arguments for you to buy them.

He supports his argument with numerous persuasive anecdotes about individuals who have walked out of the underclass with the help of faith - based, grassroots groups that practice «hard - headed, soft - hearted» compassion.

The argument is less persuasive, however, when one expands the historical perspective to note that for liberals, especially, the growth of the «50s was more the exception than the norm.

In short, mainline liberals have failed so far to make a persuasive biblical argument to prompt us to change our minds and those of Christians worldwide.

If two millennia of argument have not finished off Gnosticism, that most protean of heresies, it seems unlikely that contemporary arguments, no matter how persuasive orthodox believers may find them, will do the job with the unconverted, the skeptical, or the hostile.

The argument is crisp and frequently persuasive, although it needs a great deal of fleshing out, and its reception will depend in large part on what happens in Afghanistan and Iraq in the next few years.

But I'm afraid that the argument is not persuasive on a number of grounds.

Rather the concern is that the Church is ignoring the power of the ever more startling evidence of the workings of the natural order, as only the scientific methodology can reveal them, to inspire more persuasive arguments — not only to reinforce and defend classical philosophy and Church theology — but to prompt careful re-examination of them.

While they are more fun than many other arguments for the immateriality of the mind, they are ultimately not very persuasive because they conflate the world of the intellect with the natural world or, as Aquinas would say, intentional existence with natural existence.

This might be a persuasive argument if there were no risks of destruction in war.

He here offers a persuasive practical, as well as unabashedly moral, argument that personal merit and competition are in the short and long term interests of minorities, drawing on his own rise from poverty, which he describes as an escape from «the liberal plantation.»

For Prof. Smolin to suggest that Arkes is somehow «digging joint graves for the nation and [the pro-life movement]» only goes to prove how little acquainted he is with the argument of the book or with the beneficial impact of Arkes» persuasive powers.

They also reject the heart of that tradition's attempt to achieve publicness through persuasive argument.

That book defends the first and obvious meaning of publicness (viz., as meaning and truth available to all intelligent, reasonable and rational persons through persuasive argument) for the logically ordered questions of religion, God and Christ.

The persuasive way to read Pascal's original is as a performance argument and a prayer, but, taken as a flat set of logical possibilities, it has an answer in the extremely unlikely possibility that God rewards disbelief or that God punishes belief.

I agree that arguments based solely on religious beliefs are not useful or persuasive to those with different beliefs and should be kept out of the debate.

There are other elements in Lindskoog's web of arguments, some more persuasive than others, some eccentric.

Aware that this line leaves out of account the potential of the child for a full human life, Singer responds that «in a world that is already over-populated, and in which the regulation of fertility is universally accepted, the argument that we should bring all potential people into existence is not persuasive.»

Hence McHenry's systematic arguments are not persuasive with respect to the historical question of what Whitehead thought at earlier stages.

In the Qur» an we find constant cooperation between the two antagonistic powers of reason and emotion, for we find that in the narrations, arguments, doctrines, laws, and moral principles the words have both a persuasive teaching and an emotive force.

The most persuasive arguments in favor of a concrete individual Soul of the world, with which I am acquainted, are those of my colleague, Josiah Royce, in his Religious Aspect of Philosophy, Boston, 1885; in his Conception of God, New York and London, 1897; and lately in his Aberdeen Gifford Lectures, The World and the Individual, 2 vols., New York and London, 1901 - 02.

«It seems to me that there is a persuasive case for believing that the doctrine of Humanae Vitae, regardless of the pastoral difficulty it causes, regardless of the philosophical and theological arguments thrown against it, regardless of the historical conditioning of its neo-scholastic framework, has been, and is being taught infallibly, that is, irreversibly and without error, by the Church's ordinary universal magisterium.»

Although persuasive theological arguments can be given for adopting each of these types, neither of them can be said to be somehow theologically mandated by the very nature of Christianity.

You have to give a persuasive argument why someone should choose to investigate your religion instead of someone else's.

While these voices are doubtless present in American culture, I find the opposite argument more persuasive: The relative absence of ideology in American politics, culture, or religion allows Americans to steer a middle course to navigate clear of the shoals of extremism.»

As a more persuasive argument for my contention, note the definition of this loci relative to an occasion M (PR 123f.

Looks like the persuasive argument removal police were at work overnight and took out a couple of good threads.

I have no desire to deny the existence of a supreme evil persuasive power, but I do think that Whitehead's arguments for the existence of a good persuasive power are convincing.

This is the strongest of the non-pacifist arguments, and very persuasive to many minds.

This imposition can not be by persuasive argument, since argument is possible only where there is some shared court of appeal.

I am just not sure any of these arguments are persuasive for anybody but Christians.

After the Reformation, Christians often allowed arguments over theological ideas to mask the otherwise inescapable demands of Christ's love, and this has wounded the persuasive clarity of Christian witness.

The clear principles of Catholic social thought and the rationally accessible ¯ and highly persuasive ¯ lines of argument from natural - law philosophy provide better grounds for discussion of how to order our lives together.

There is Socrates drinking the hemlock rather than employ persuasive tricks in place of objective rational argument.

So unless he was lying publicly to help cover failings behind the scenes (seems unlikely to me) then I don't see your inertial argument as persuasive given the recent influx of PL TV money and the addition of CL money too as outside forces acting upon FSG's past behaviorial pattern.

However, parents will also find some very persuasive arguments against the practice of co-sleeping, including the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP).

We've got a persuasive argument for why and plenty of suggestions for how.

Personalities play that function - if John Prescott and Paddy Ashdown are taking diametrically opposed views of the issue on the TV news, you may well already have an underlying view about whose arguments you will find persuasive.