Sentences with phrase «purpose of argument»

For purposes of this argument, «invest the rest» means to invest in mutual funds the money you would save by buying a term policy instead of an indexed universal life policy.

Some have said he is a moral man, a point that can be debated, but which I, for purposes of argument, concede if one defines ones philosophy of morality; however to say he is a Christian in the Judeo Christian model is to deny that religion's most basic tenets.

Let us assume, at least for the purpose of argument, that Worship is a serious employment for intelligent beings, and worth trying to understand.

It is enough for the purposes of my argument to show that societies exhibit in their behavior the same five necessary and sufficient conditions for purposiveness that I applied at the outset to individual behavior.

As an outgrowth of psychoanalysis, it can represent this source for the purposes of this argument.2

«But we asked: For the purposes of argument, is that really the best you can do?»

However, for purposes of argument I'll stipulate that a blood glucose level over 140 mg / dl probably does some mild harm.

Unfortunately for the purposes of our argument there's a fine line between profit and greed; is it okay to add a 100 % markup to an item in a shop?

«People who think the purpose of argument is to prevent progress, lobster chess style, are not engaging constructively»

To a scientific mentality, the purpose of argument is to make progress.

People who think the purpose of argument is to prevent progress, lobster chess style, are not engaging constructively, and are neither friends of science nor of progress.

For the purposes of argument, I will use just the Semi-major axis and 3 significant figures to estimate the relative energy received from the sun.

Suppose for purposes of argument that between 1659 and 2007, temperature trend patterns occurring in Central England approximately reflected temperature trend patterns occurring worldwide; i.e., that the rates of change in local temperatures occurring in Central England were roughly similar to rates of change experienced at the same time in other parts of the world.

His lordship was prepared to assume for the purposes of argument that the content of the present play was such that it might cause deep offence to some (though not most) practising Christians, and that it was couched in not merely tasteless but lurid and arguably contemptuous or reviling terms.