Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cold-sober in Philadelphia, His Excellency ably lashed the Great Powers thus: "There is a tendency to look down upon Japan as un enfant gāté [spoiled child] who may run amuck at any moment. The argument too often falls upon Japanese ears in this manner: If we have the ratio of 10, we will always behave, but if you [Japan] have more than 6 or 7 it is highly probable that you will go astray.' Does not that sound too much like asserting moral superiority? It is something which Japanese susceptibility cannot tolerate. It is something...
Opponents of the required course delight in dragging into the argument a romantic description of what a university should be. A community of scholars dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and to the advancement of learning--such is the picture we have painted. Against this is raised a vivid scene to portray the iniquities of the required course--students frittering away their time in dead and uninteresting subjects at the expense of their true intellectual potentialities...
...Owen's style, while not as yet distinguished, is adequate for the purpose. The argument moves along clearly and succinctly and the book may well be taken as a model treatment of the sort of question it attempts to handle
Burning its own power platform of three years ago, IBA declared: "Fundamental principles are by way of being tested, and fallacious theories must be refuted not by argument, but by actual experience." Government competition was merely a "challenge to the leadership of the industry." IBA even admitted that "evidence of fairness" on the part of Tennessee Valley Authority was "by no means lacking" (see above...
...much as opposed to the dynamics of history. The poor people who would be left might not speak in the scholastic sense, with authority, but they might, as they have done before, still speak with intelligence. It is too bad that professorial geniuses must die, if Professor Wiener's argument is good, but one notices, in looking through a thousand years, that others, and even smarter, come along to fill their shoes...