Sentences with phrase «substance of one's argument»

There is no reason for me to survey the current debate as concerns the substance of the arguments, nor to suggest my own verdict on each of the contested points, as I would do in a setting where time and structure would permit a serious debate in just war terms.

Your «nice try» comment is simply an attempt to deflect away from the substance of this argument, in trying to denigrate me as irrelevant... when in fact, all it does is reflect that you are trying to «get me to go away» because you have no substantive argument left to make.

Why wrestle with the substance of their argument when it's so much easier to just sigh about «kids these days» and be done with it?

In a work of nearly a thousand pages, Garrow never really takes seriously (and therefore never comes to terms with) the substance of the argument that was, and is, arrayed against the legalization of abortion.

But such responses based on attributing motives to the challenger (or questioning the intelligence, mocking, taunting, etc.) rather than evaluating the substance of the argument will always fail.

This reversal, in which Anselm and his followers no longer automatically stand in the dock but instead assume the role of prosecuting attorney, provides a new perspective on the entire discussion of the ontological argument, a perspective badly needed in view of the sorry record set by a host of past philosophers who, for the most part, failed to penetrate the substance of the argument because they already knew by heart the litany whose refrain is «Existence is not a predicate.»

Cuomo did not really address the substance of the arguments.

Typical of establishment politicians, Stefanik has trotted out professional partisan hack Lenny Alcivar to defend his boss with a lame generalization about Katie Wilson while completely ignoring the substance of her argument.

As a rule in modern British politics, if you have to rely on comparing your mainstream opponents to the politics which threatened Europe in the 1940s then the substance of your argument is vapid.

In either case, in a film about a contest that judges based on the substance of the argument over the style of the delivery, the fact that the delivery is all the film has going for it means it has enough oomph to get the crowd on its side but not enough logic to win over those who look any further than the surface affability.

Thacker's «Viewpoint» piece spends more time questioning the motives (aka «sliming») skeptics by innuendo rather than discussing the substance of their arguments (which realclimate does better).

Focus on the substance of the arguments, don't allow yourself to be distracted by the form.

Why don't you respond to the substance of their argument?

Given that the substance of arguments like Monbiot's are put beyond reach — in to the hands of some scientists, somewhere, according to him — it is inevitable that any attempt at reasoned discussion will end in an impasse.

But what counts, at the end of the day, is the substance of the argument, not the quantity.

If opposing counsel is a jerk, your job is not to let yourself be provoked, to ignore the bluster, and to respond — if you feel it is necessary — to the substance of the argument, not the form.

While a brief is first and foremost a forum for advocacy on behalf of your client, the closer it approximates judicial writing style, the more favorably the judge will be inclined view the substance of your argument.