What is "arguments"

Usage examples of "arguments".

Winkelman trots out all the old cultural relativist arguments against ranking any sort of consciousness achievement as higher or lower than another across cultures.

There is a powerful reason why some Madhyamika schools only refute the arguments of others and refuse to make assertions.

It marshals a vast amount of scientific evidence, from physics to biology, and offers extensive arguments, all geared to objectively proving the holistic nature of the universe.

In volume 2, based on rather extensive evidence and arguments, I suggest that a much more adequate view can be advanced by, at the very least, delineating the ways that translation and transformation operate in men and women.

The cars are out, the motorcycles and scooters and jeeps, and there are arguments, radios playing, the sound of auto horns.

It referred to other arguments, to cities, houses, rooms, those wasted lessons, our history in words.

The arguments in the Dialogues assume an important 18th century distinction between natural religion and revealed religion.

To avoid political confrontation, Hume adopted the common literary technique of presenting controversial arguments in dialog form.

Earlier defenders of cosmological-type arguments, such as Aquinas, argued that an infinite series of causes of the universe is impossible.

But it is evident, whenever our arguments lose this advantage, and run wide of common life, that the most refined scepticism comes to be upon a footing with them, and is able to oppose and counterbalance them.

The arguments employed in all, if just, are of a similar nature, and contain the same force and evidence.

It is now become a matter of mere curiosity to study the first writers on that subject, who had the full force of prejudice to encounter, and were obliged to turn their arguments on every side in order to render them popular and convincing.

The discoveries by microscopes, as they open a new universe in miniature, are still objections, according to you, arguments, according to me.

I shall begin with observing, that there is an evident absurdity in pretending to demonstrate a matter of fact, or to prove it by any arguments a priori.

But as men have now learned to form principles, and to draw consequences, it is necessary to change the batteries, and to make use of such arguments as will endure at least some scrutiny and examination.