Sentences with phrase «weak argument from»

As readers of science books know, they can sniff out a weak argument from a mile away.

The weaker the argument from the New Testament becomes, the stronger the teleological argument becomes - and so to use the «too extraordinary» argument as an argument against the existence of God is literally self - refuting!

Not exact matches

While I'm not persuaded by the argument that Canada needs countercyclical Keynesian deficit spending (I think we're already out of recession), I do know what fiscal policy I would consider worse: arbitrarily cutting spending in a weak economy to balance the budget in light of a revenue shortfall stemming from lower than expected nominal GDP.

A plausible argument can be made that the Fed should now deviate from its rule book, but the argument isn't that the economy is too weak to cope with tighter monetary policy.

Poloz's main argument for leaving interest rates low is that the obvious damage from an extended period of weak economic growth outweighs the hypothetical risk of a housing bust.

your argument is logically weak and the conclusions drawn from it are unsubstantiated.

If you have to open up with insults and name calling, your argument was weak from the first sentence.

Your weak argument here suffers from what is called a staw - man argument.

the writers gained NO money and power from writing it... sorry... your argument is weak and baseless... and the 4 Gospels were written from about 15 to 30 years after Jesus... pretty ignorant to think it was 40 to 80..

It is very interesting that when St. Thomas Aquinas asks if God could have united the nature of an angel to himself, although in the end and on — I think — pretty weak grounds he rejects this argument, he speculates: «There are some who say an angelic nature could not have been assumed because angels not being generated or corrupted are from the moment of their creation perfect in their personality,» (ST III, q. 4, a. 2).

Arguing from the absence is the weakest form of argument, and so I choose not to even believe that simply because women are not mentioned, they are not meant to fulfill this role.

@blastgunner the silence from my part is not due to a lack of arguments but to the simple fact that i, m tired of trying to explain how unfounded, weak... your comments are the same way i, m, tired of reading the same old invalid arguments being used, rehashed, borrowed from some sites like caughtoffside or some lazy pundits who love to use the same old cliches without anything to back it up!!

Giroud had 14 league goals I don't know where you get 19 from you keep adding FA cup goals to boost your weak argument, he played 26 league games the same as Costa who ended on 20 League goals!

I do believe that Gazidis was weak and done very little to convince Silent Stan that the issues was the managers fault, Wenger has been able to turn around and point to poor transfer activity from the board to result in a poor team for him to manage, for someone who isn't deeply understanding about football then Wengers arguments could sound equally valid.

The campaign is not only based on extremely weak arguments but also on the idea that Labour should go into the next election saying «We believe not only that free movement should be possible with the countries with which we have the closest economic ties but also from every where else in the world.

At the same time though, this is often used as a way of sidestepping the real issue — a quick joke distracts from the fact that the arguments for the retention of the sculptures are all relatively weak.

Arguing from extremes is the weakest form of argument.

Such organization of arguments from the strongest to the weakest will help your readers better understand your point as well as it will convince them in to take your side on the issue / topic.

That's a weak argument, which is why I always tell my book marketing clients not to negotiate from a position of weakness: never start a relationship asking for favors.

On the other hand, a group, whose motivation for your essay is low, is not likely to develop interest from hearing weak arguments.

They say some pets derive weaker immunity than others from vaccines, another argument for annual shots.

Extrapolating from individual behavior to group (or government) decisions (or policy) is a very weak argument for lots of reasons.

Was the director concerned that the results would undermine the already extremely weak arguments that global warming from roughly the middle of the 1970s to near the end of the 1990s (there has been none since) was almost entirely the result of human - caused processes?

A weak or unimportant argument can detract from the weight of the better ones.

Weak argument: I've told you many times that SAW is not created by subtracting AGW from HadCRUT3 but by filtering out all of the harmonics of a sawtooth save 2 - 5 and significantly attenuating 4 - 5.

We were rather weak on facts and figures, on causes and consequences, and shied away from arguments about practicalities.

John A., replies: My expertise is that I can spot a weak argument, full of fallacies and rhetorical absurdities, from a long way away.

tucci started out with an «inference» that had no basis on evidence, and went on to build his «argument» from that obviously weak foundation.

There are a multitude number of pieces of evidence for this, stemming from mass balance arguments, changes in isotopes, O2 / N2 ratios, observed changes in carbon in other sources (acting as a sink), paleo - sensitivity studies showing that CO2 is a relatively slow and weak feedback (~ 10 ppm / C), etc..

All that having been said, let's take another look at the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) argument, first noting the following: The proponents of AGW argue that, right from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution when there were no automobiles, very few steam engines, and only 1.2 billion people (versus today's 7 billion), the introduction of initially tiny quantities of a weak greenhouse gas produced, without time - delay, an in - phase and measurable rise in global temperatures that continues to this day.

Mr. Brown: I've had situations where co-counsel from another firm wants to raise weak arguments.