Sentences with phrase «of standard arguments»

The paper itself (both versions) is a collection of standard arguments for why everything is uncertain and nothing can be concluded, but did actually include a little analysis.

Pius XII, in a further clarification of the standard argument, holds that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the death penalty, it does not exercise dominion over human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a kind of moral suicide, has deprived himself of the right to life.

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So while there are certainly arguments to be made in favor of a rules - based Fed over the pure discretion of the current PhD standard, such reform should not be viewed as a solution to the real issue, which is a central bank having a monopoly on money at all.

However, unlike the arguments of Liu and Hanauer, they are compatible with standard macroeconomics.

One of the arguments that I've made is that we had the mother of all housing bubbles, we had a vast erosion of credit standards, we had really easy money, we had the Bush tax cuts plus the Iraq war, and all that got us in the precrisis period was adequate growth.

Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

Bell makes a number of arguments; the US ads may not meet Canadian advertising standards, simsub allows Canadian businesses to advertise their products to Canadian viewers, it fosters a strong and financially viable Canadian broadcast industry, contributes to the Canadian economy through job creation and ultimately helps generate the revenues that allow Canadian networks to provide sports and local news to Canadian viewers.

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

In terms of trying to impose some sort of a nondiscrimination remedy or neutrality standard, the main argument you hear is that it would negatively impact investment.

Atheists, the bottom line is this: if there is no God, no afterlife and as a result of that no standard of behavior, your arguments to disprove him are pointless.

It is well - reasoned and provides excellent arguments to use against all the standard polemics of those who want to drive religion down your throat.

The standard argument goes something like this: the culture war is either over or increasingly irrelevant to younger generations of evangelicals, who respond to a much broader array....

The argument for no standards is an argument against the very idea of public decency.

But, please note that the majority of Jews living here are not from Israel they are Europeans, or Americans, even by your own standards your argument is unsound.

To dismiss «chance» out of hand betrays a standard argument of personal incredulity based in a lack of familiarity with what the science actually says and how it is validated in application.

In addition to this being a case of special pleading via definitional fiat, the immutable good nature of god argument places the «objective / absolute» standard beyond the control of the god in that god has no choice but to obey this good nature (which also confounds the notion of omnipotence in that god is restricted to only a limited set of possible behaviors).

If we had to condense the account of the experience, it would run roughly in this way: No one would get away with arguments that were just not good enough, just not up to standard.

By human standards, the argument is a reasonable one, but buttressing it with an out of context is something no well - trained exegist would consider.

A standard argument advanced by partisans of judicial supremacy is that the only alternative to tolerating the unrestrained judicial usurpation of democratic legislative authority is «legal anarchy.»

Not convincing» which is funny circular argument because you state that everyone of that age «average education level of individuals is higher now than in the dark ages» so by your standard nothing of that age can be verified?

Students of religion will recognize the dodge — it used to be called fideism, and atheists gleefully ridiculed it; and the expedient suspension of rational argument; and the double standard.

It seems that maybe what John, Peter, James, and Jude did was go to a professionally trained letter writer and provided them with the basic ideas, arguments, and points they wanted to make in their letter, and then let the professional letter writer compose the letter according to the letter writing standards of that day.

Mark Bauerlein does not reproduce any of N. M. Gwynne's arguments for the claim that the rules of Standard English grammar, unlike those of the many non-standard English dialects, possess «a rationality that runs deeper than cultural context and historical circumstance» («Grammar Rules,» February).

@Peteyroo — I just checked out her blog, I believe it was the argument of moral objectivity that was foremost in her mind (why are some actions considered «cruel» or «unjust» — are these just humans standards, or is there some outside standard?)

And that is the point of my argument; the standard theological version of process philosophy — Whitehead with God — leads me to ask such questions, leads me to wonder why such senseless, absurd disasters have plagued us at every step of our history, and this counts strongly against the centered version of process metaphysics.

God overrides the standard argument in the minds of the Jews and, in doing so, also acts «contrary to nature.»

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.

One hates to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied human sexual appetite?

In an extraordinary essay, «Colors, Cultures, and Practices» in The Tasks of Philosophy, MacIntyre draws explicitly on Wittgenstein's arguments against a private language, to argue that our judgments of color are socially established standards.

To those of you claiming I am lying or wrong, I'll defer to your standard argument.

Citing the standard arguments in support of quotas, he contends that the passage of 209 «would mark a major setback to our nation's tenuous commitment to creating a discrimination - free society.»

It is instead, as I have been suggesting, a configuration of plural communities with their own conventions, disciplinary histories, standards of evidence and argument, and patterns of discourse.

My argument is that while science does tell us much about the world around us, IT (science - our most favored epistemological standard) obviously only deals with the physical and can not disprove the spiritual, and that there are other ways of knowing truth that do prove (support is the word I prefer, since no «proof» is satisfactory to al epistemological standards) the existence of God.

The cardinal's attempt to provide biblical, patristic, medieval, and canonical arguments in favor of his proposal have been seriously criticized, in the proper academic sense of the term, by responsible scholars (the standard reference here is Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church, edited by Robert Dodaro, OSA [Ignatius Press]-RRB-.

Since, for Griffin, what I have called the «standard view» of omnipotence is not distinguished from and, inflict (given one of his arguments) reduced to the monopolistic view, it, too, is incoherent and for the same reasons.

This final part of Griffin's argument for the process theodicy turns on an assumption that he appears to have borrowed by Hartshorne, viz., that the so - called «social view» of omnipotence is the only alternative to the monopolistic (and thus to the standard) view.9 The critique of the latter thus established the former as (in Griffin's words) «the only view that is coherent if one is talking about the power a being with the greatest conceivable amount of power could have over a created, i.e. an actual world» (GPE 269).

Further, I suspect that it is this second thesis concerning the deficiency of Premise X upon which Griffin is really depending in his argument against the standard view of omnipotence.

• The public has been dragged through a labyrinth of denials, retractions, redefinitions and tortured arguments, all designed to justify and rationalize lowered moral standards in the treatment of prisoners, not to strengthen and defend high ethical standards.

Monster: The one you spelled out is this «Once I understood the Bible was not a good guide for morality, all of the arguments that were offered up as explanations or excuses for a book that is certainly evil by modern, civilized standards no longer held water.»

What you have is the standard ICR / AIG / DI list of arguments of incredulity based in misrepresentation of the science.

As should be clear from the foregoing account, Griffin's argument against the standard view of omnipotence rests on the claim that Premise X is in some way deficient.

Fundamental to this task is the search for an objective ground for value claims — a well - reasoned argument for external standards which resists the ever - present tendency to reduce ethics to the subjective whims and passions of personal self - interest.

Here the character of Brown's argument that theological schools ought to adopt higher academic standards is particularly revealing.

If we were to apply this as standard in judging the Islamic world then there would be very little argument that this is a hideous cancer and retrograde belief system that should be relegated to the trash bin of history.

«Of course, we tell our retail partners of our high safety standards, which provide a powerful argument in selling situations,» says Claudia SchremOf course, we tell our retail partners of our high safety standards, which provide a powerful argument in selling situations,» says Claudia Schremof our high safety standards, which provide a powerful argument in selling situations,» says Claudia Schrems.

The judge also found it «abundantly clear» that the regulations sought greater consistency with international standards and described the argument that they did not aim to achieve greater harmonisation of federal regulations as «simply untenable».

But it seems like every standard argument and rule of logic gets kicked in to touch; we play well it is down to the players and not AW, we play shite and it is down to AW and not the players.

It can be argued that the crowds were so good because we were winning regularly, but that argument is easily countered by our current home form, six wins on the bounce the best run since the early days of SImon Grayson's time at the helm, and against a higher standard of opposition.

Every two days someone arrives wanting an individual course on home birth with their own set of links to refute the standard set of arguments and a 1:10 student - teacher ratio.