Sentences with phrase «popular arguments used»
As U.S. senators are considering whether to support background checks on people purchasing guns, Shermer uses simple figures to debunk a number of popular arguments used to oppose gun control.
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Yet again I am so amused by the popular atheists who flock to articles like this to throw out words like «dumb» «stupid» «idiots» «morons» and then use same overused arguments proposed by authors such as Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris.
Even today, our government uses moral arguments to press for popular support of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.
When at last it became fashionable to admit that there are irreconcilable contradictions in the four versions of the empty tomb story, this fact was used by many as a popular argument in favor of their essential reliability.
Climbing Mount Improbable, Dawkins» most recent popular work, 9 is mainly a refutation of arguments put forward over many years by a number of distinguished physical scientists who have claimed that biological evolutionary change by natural selection is intrinsically unreasonable, using arguments from probability theory.
This is not meant as a critique as much as a fact: A demagogue is «a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.»
It is possible to respond to these arguments by saying that our basic intuitions need to be revised so as to be in keeping with a «loose and popular» sense of identity and not a «strict and philosophical» sense, to use Bishop Butler's terminology.
I do so not because I am trying to use more popular essays to entice some to read the more «serious» essays — indeed, I think that the more popular essays are the more serious — but because, I am convinced, as a friend has put it, that «arguments, including moral arguments, can not be separated from the descriptions that not merely accompany them, but make them possible.»
A very popular argument anti-content people use is that users are paying for distribution and not for content.
The argument people always use is that the characters are there, and they'd work in Smash (though if they can make Mac and WFT work in Smash then the point is probably moot) Metroid and DK have been around longer and are still pretty popular, so why not?
Epstein's writing received praise from Patrick Michaels and Matt Ridley on the book's publisher's page, which describes The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels as «the best popular - market book about climate, environmental policy, and energy,» as well as an «eloquent and powerful argument for using fossil fuels on moral grounds.»
Often, attorneys use the lyrics of popular music in fairly predictable ways in their writing, sometimes with adverse impact on the persuasiveness of the argument they are advancing.
The most popular argument leveraged against brands enabling cryptocurrency payments is consumers won't use it.