Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This motion passed without argument, as did most of the motions in the particularly good-natured meeting, the third-to-last for longtime council members Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 and Councillor Sheila Doyle Russell...
...fact, this experience is so gratifying that it's tempting to just stick to our liberal selves and to stop dealing with the other team altogether. When we're talking to each other, we aren't constantly forced to explain ourselves, to start from square one in every argument. We share certain basic tenets and assumptions that allow us to move straight to what feels like a much higher level of discourse...
...senator from Arizona chains his argument to the spirit of youth...
...deny that the single most powerful figure--not merely in these two millenniums but in all human history--has been Jesus of Nazareth. Not only is the prevalent system of denoting the years based on an erroneous 6th century calculation of the date of his birth, but a serious argument can be made that no one else's life has proved remotely as powerful and enduring as that of Jesus. It's an astonishing conclusion in light of the fact that Jesus was a man who lived a short life in a rural backwater of the Roman Empire, who died...
...Scarry's ideas and floral vocabulary are more tempting than convincing. If she had presented her system as tentative rather than perfect and complete, if she had acknowledged the counter-arguments and reasons for hesitation, her argument would be easier to swallow...