When you write you speech, keep in mind that the best speeches have very little to do with argument and more to do
with logical ideas.
Not exact matches
Unlikely enough that even entertaining the very
idea is laughable on its face so I won't pretend like the christians make an even remotely
logical claim but I am also very aware that I can't say,
with 100 % certainty, ANYTHING about this universe.
This view may be argued for in various ways: — first: by appeal to
logical laws and metaphysical necessities; — second: by appeal to the existence and nature of God; — third: by appeal to causal determinism (Causal determinism is the
idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions together
with the laws of nature)
You ridiculed the
idea that 40K was a reasonable number
with no
logical argument to support your view at all.
The
logical model in terms of which the mind
with its
ideas, and substance
with its attributes were conceived as unified wholes was that of the subject
with predicates, which also had become something quite other than what it had been for Aristotle, since universals were no longer thought of as «forms.»
It is poor method to try to estimate facts, especially such as are hard to measure
with any accuracy, without careful survey of the
logical structure of the
ideas we bring to bear upon these facts.
@Snow, «
With your skill at making
logical leaps like this...» Apparently you do understand the
idea of sarcasm.
This is a style of communication that is «messy» for those bred
with the clean «
logical» world of print culture's abstracted
ideas.
Metaphysics for Bergson strives to minimize the mediation of all symbols (like words and concepts), and although metaphysics «claims to dispense
with symbols,» it can not dispense
with them entirely.13 Hence, since it requires reflection and articulation (in spite of being based on intuition) metaphysics will always be required to genuflect at the door to the sanctuary of the intellect (even though the immediacy of Being, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the
idea of
logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident alien.
It begins
with a philosophy that endeavors to frame a coherent,
logical, necessary system of general
ideas that combines a creative and unique expression of the nature and unity of God.
In all of these we were dealing
with concepts,
with the realm of
ideas that must be
logical and consistent.
I think Brueggemann is headed in the right direction
with his thesis, but has not followed his
idea to it's
logical conclusion.
To the Stagerite, we owe: the
idea that the natural world is a coherent object of philosophical study, the structure of that philosophy, and the rational and
logical tools
with which to study it.
From this conviction, implicit in the whole
idea of the covenant but seen
with fullest clarity by the prophets, it was a
logical step to the conclusion that God had given to Israel special privileges in order to be the special servant of all mankind.
Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of
Logical Positivism (the
idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth
with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.
All of which is
logical, as long as you're content
with the
idea that a football club doesn't belong, in any significant aspect, to its fans.
But I have to say, bloggers who perpetuate this
idea, and who have contributed to creating this myth that moms are «being moms» when they are laughing
with and cuddling
with and playing
with and enjoying their children, (and are, by
logical extension, NOT «being moms» when they are doing other things) are doing a disservice, in my opinion.
Although such a statement may seem to have little to do
with real physical processes, Hawking notes that the
idea of a theory that governs the creators, and hence the creation, of the theory itself leads to
logical problems.
«Everything we do
with the journal is a
logical extension of the U.K.'s patient choice agenda — this
idea that there is no decision about us without us.»
As an aside, his
idea is not entirely
logical, as what amounts to a public execution of a martyr figure would likely spur the revolution on, but they do address this and I am comfortable
with megalomaniacal dictators making short - sighted decisions from time to time.
Of course, the
logical culmination of the
idea of school as job - skills provider is that we would do away
with school altogether and just have apprenticeships.
After years of passivity and limited responsibility for communicating opinions and defending solutions, students will need to start formulating
ideas, expressing them clearly, and defending opinions or solutions
with logical and often subjective reasoning.
The current system of procedural accountability within special education law is a
logical response to the problems that led Congress in 1975 to enact the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now known as the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act, or
IDEA): the total exclusion of some students
with disabilities, the inadequate education of others, and the segregation of those in school from their nondisabled peers.
VistaJet,
with its global fleet of branded Bombardier Global 5000 and Challenger 350 aircraft, takes the
idea of the shared economy to the next
logical and expensive level.
Mike Shatzkin (@MikeShatzkin), conference council chair for the Digital Book World Conference + Expo, and founder / CEO of The
Idea Logical Company, shares, «
With the proliferation of digital media and new business models, the children's and education book business is rapidly growing and changing.»
With Publishers Launch founders Mike Shatzkin (The
Idea Logical Company) and Michael Cader (Publishers Lunch)
Interview (Starts at 6:03)-- Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of The
Idea Logical Company in New York, spoke
with me on April 23rd by Skype about why there was so much hand wringing at the recently concluded London Book Fair, what's ahead for authors and readers if Amazon's dominance of the book business grows, and how his father, the late Leonard Shatzkin, who also had an illustrious career in publishing, probably would have been more inclined to applaud Amazon's disruption than is Leonard's son.
Research in Motion made everyone sit up
with their BlackBerry smartphones that perfected the
idea of mobile e-mail and
with tablets being the current craze, it only is
logical for RIM to register its presence in this competitive segment as well.
Since 1979, Mike has been an independent consultant (The
Idea Logical Company)
with clients that have included most major publishers in the US and UK, retailers including Barnes & Noble and Borders, wholesalers including Ingram, and a host of tech startups.
Many, if not most, of the new authors are starting
with the
idea that doing it themselves is the only
logical method of publishing in this period of history.
Be careful
with structuring the research paper
ideas: each
idea has to be an addition to the topic and you should present
ideas in the
logical sequence.
With our assistance, your essay will have
logical structure, clear flow of
ideas, and proper referencing.
«There's never been anything like the potential for domination by a single company in the U.S. book business like what we see now
with Amazon,» said Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of The
Idea Logical, a New York publishing consultancy.
«I think that everybody competing
with Amazon in the e-book market had better fasten their seat belts,» Mike Shatzkin, the founder and chief executive of the
Idea Logical Company, a consultant to publishers, said in an interview.
Since Deswell wasn't a very big position to begin
with I thought the
logical thing to do was to add a bit to this position instead of buying into an inferior
idea.
The
logical & ultimate extension of my approach is to seek out investment
ideas that are uncorrelated, or negatively uncorrelated,
with the economy.
However, the lack of antibacterial pancreatic secretions and the presence of undigested food seem
logical reasons for SIBO to develop, and the requirement for antibiotics in some patients
with EPI before an optimal response to enzyme replacement support the
idea of secondary SIBO.
Our goals
with Color Thief are to create an atmospheric puzzle game that respects the player by minimizing hand - holding and repetition, tells a story through details in the environment, and builds an engaging experience by following the
logical implications of a simple gameplay
idea (what if color equaled energy?).
This
idea was carried to its
logical conclusion in the instantaneous Noit (One second Drawing) series he made in 1970, each piece created according to a set of instructions and presented together
with a «time / operator» stamp recording the exact date and time of their production.
But from my point of view, it has to be intellectually coherent: Not a strange melange of «data» and «concept», but something
with a clean set of
ideas, assumptions and
logical / mathematical reasoning; supported by observational data when the role of these data has been made clear.
To help
with my research on
logical fallacies and ad hominem attacks I was wondering if the following selection of comments lifted from just two threads on here represent legitimate intellectual attacks on a persons
ideas, motivations and political agenda?
In the late 19th century, a leading common law tort scholar wrote: «The lawyer can not afford to adventure himself
with philosophers in the
logical and metaphysical controversies that beset the
idea of cause.»
If you have no
idea where to start
with investing, Acorns is a
logical first step.
Taking that core
idea — non-trained participants working
with actors to co-author a story experience — and setting it outside a theater environment was the next
logical step.
Steve Jobs would never have... Oh wait You know, for all the missteps that Tim Cook has made, a lot of people tend to forget that Steve Jobs was running out of
ideas too... A lot of the more half - baked
ideas actually came from Steve Jobs... Such as Siri, the iPhone 4
with the antenna lines, iCloud that didn't have much functionality... I would argue that the Apple today is a very
logical evolution of the old apple.
Performance - driven IT professional
with a strong commitment to providing effective solutions * Specialize in assimilating new
ideas and concepts into the development of Analyzing Data while applying
logical and analytical approaches to complex problems and issues
(Further down, Kelly gets delusional altogether
with a panoply of various detailed custody
ideas and conclusions, not a single one of which is based on any research — or even a
logical precursor in this paper itself — in an amazing Orwellian contradiction of the title of this article.)
For decades, the most valued members of society seemed to be
logical, linear thinkers, those more comfortable
with crunching numbers than exploring conceptual
ideas.