Sentences with phrase «than arguments refer»

Demean and insult people Make staements rather than arguments Refer to Journals noted for a particualr bias Spend time surpressing any dissenting voices - e.g. Wikipedia

Not exact matches

His argument centers on the following proposition which he refers to as «Premise X»: «It is possible for one actual being's condition to be completely determined by a being or beings other than itself» (GPE 264).

My essay was sufficiently unclear in referring to Paul Macdonald's description of the argument in question as to imply that it was his argument, rather than merely a «possible» argument.

Without links to actual studies, I find it difficult to digest someone's arguments that appear to be more like ranting and bullying (I'm referring to Dr T's posts, not your above one) than proper analyses of scientific research.

In fact, claims that size variation in Australopithecus and / or Paranthropus was larger than that in recent human populations include inferences on sexual dimorphism (Richmond and Jungers, 1995; Plavcan et al., 2005; Lockwood et al., 2007; but see Reno et al., 2003), whereas arguments referring to early Homo are usually associated with eco-physiological variants (Antón et al., 2014; Di Vincenzo et al., 2015).

For instance, the authors refer to «the reform» case as though it were monolithic and uncontested, and cite, for example, arguments that certified teachers are no more effective than uncertified, with no indication that this finding is disputed in the literature.

Example 4 (strawman argument): (4) I was referring to your quote: «For one thing long - term predictions of the average climate over much less than ten - year periods are less plausible than over longer periods.»

Even if you do believe in a supreme being, by referring to it you have defined it, and in order to define it (by your argument) you must be bigger than the supreme being.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.