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Douglas Walton, Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation, Cambridge, 1998


1918 flu pandemic

Academic Andrew Price-Smith has made the controversial argument that the virus helped tip the balance of power in the later days of the war towards the Allied cause.

1974 Baltimore Colts season

Head coach Howard Schnellenberger was fired after three games, after an argument with owner Robert Irsay over whether Marty Domres or Bert Jones should start at quarterback for the Colts.

2003 Staten Island Ferry crash

The crash was at first said by New York City to be an Act of God, with attorneys arguing that the Department of Transportation should not be held responsible for the crash, an argument that disturbed many survivors and New York City residents.

A Clockwork Origin

It could also be considered a reference to William Paley's Watchmaker analogy, a teleological argument found in his work Natural Theology.

Abitur after twelve years

The principal argument for the reduction are the comparatively long times for vocational education in Germany.

Alexander Ales

A reply to this by Johann Cochlaeus, also addressed to the Scottish king, occasioned a second letter from Alesius, in which he amplified his argument with great force and entered into more general questions.

Bayesian information criterion

The BIC was developed by Gideon E. Schwarz, who gave a Bayesian argument for adopting it.

Bob Schultz

He was shot to death at age 55 after becoming embroiled in an argument with another patron in the bar of a Nashville Veterans of Foreign Wars post.

Bottom-Up Approach of the Holocaust

Functionalists represent the argument that the decision to kill the Jews developed over time with a concept called "cumulative radicalization" (Hans Mommsen).

Budukh language

Verbs normally agree with their absolutive argument (intransitive subject or transitive object) in gender.

County of Monzón

Historian Justo Pérez de Urbel's argument that in 985 Monzón was annexed by the Banu Gómez clan that ruled the Saldaña and Carrión was based on a document of 995 that names them as the only rulers between Zamora and Castile, without specifying the boundaries of the latter.

Craftivism

The debate spread after the self-titled Craftivism team on Etsy had an inner-group argument about the political affiliation of its members, causing some members to leave the group.

Daan Samson

According to some critics he takes a cynical stance, bearing resemblance to a right‑wing liberal argument.

David Alan Johnson

In his first book, Hume, Holism, and Miracles, Johnson purports to have refuted David Hume's popular argument for the irrationality of belief in testimony of miracles (as can be found in his essay entitled "Of Miracles") as well as several reconstructions of Hume's argument (most notably that of Bayesian philosopher Jordan Howard Sobel).

Doomsday argument

Additionally, it should be considered that because Carter did present and describe his argument, in which case the people to whom he explained it did contemplate the DA, as it was inevitable, the conclusion could then be drawn that in the moment of explanation Carter created the basis for his own prediction.

Dow 36,000

The argument of Glassman and Hassett has been summarised by John Quiggin, writing in the Australian Financial Review.

Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy

The argument is thus made that the document was designed to prevent the Germans from discovering the development of the French 75.

G. E. Moore

The argument clearly depends on the assumption that if "good" were definable, it would be an analytic truth about "good," an assumption many contemporary moral realists like Richard Boyd and Peter Railton reject.

Gerardo Sandoval

Sandoval articulated an argument that San Franciscans should leave no stone unturned in trying to fight back, stating people should protest at "corporate headquarters, at the homes of CEOs, and their birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs or wherever" as the lawsuit would take money away from underserved segments of the population.

Gianluca Pagliuca

Because of his colourful name, former SportsCenter anchor and current ESPN host Keith Olbermann uses his name as a creative way of airing someone cursing on camera in the midst of an argument with an official.

Guillermo Francella

Two more sequels to Los Extermineitors followed, Extermineitors III: La gran pelea final and Extermineitors IV: Como hermanos gemelos, whose central argument was largely a parody of the classic Schwarzenegger/DeVito comedy Twins.

Hairdresser on Fire

The opening track for Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker is a recording of an argument between Adams and David Rawlings over the inclusion of Suedehead, the A-side of this track, on Bona Drag.

History of the East–West Schism

The rejection of Bishop Anicetus' position on the Quartodeciman, by Polycarp and later Polycrates' letter to Pope Victor I has been used by Orthodox theologians as proof against the argument that the Churches in Asia Minor accepted the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and or the teaching of Papal supremacy.

History of the Jews in Oman

Bin Yahuda lived in Sohar, and sailed for China between the years of 882 and 912 after an argument with a Jewish colleague, where he made a great fortune.

Horia-Roman Patapievici

Patapievici was also a TV producer for two shows for TVR Cultural: "Idei în libertate" (2002) and "Înapoi la argument" (2005).

James Oneal

The true "Right Wing" of the party (exemplified by a large section of the publicists associate with the party, including Allan L. Benson, Charles Edward Russell, John Spargo, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, and Carl D. Thompson peeled away in 1917-18, as American participation in the European conflict became a reality and Woodrow Wilson's argument that this was indeed a "war to make the world safe for democracy" made converts.

John Bellers

Karl Marx mentions Bellers in Chapter 25 of Das Kapital, quoting Bellers' argument that "the labour of the poor is the mines sic of the rich".

Kanbun

Following these kanbun instructions step by step transforms the sentence so it has the typical Japanese subject–object–verb argument order.

Katie Jarvis

Jarvis was seen by a casting agent working for director Andrea Arnold at Tilbury Town railway station in Tilbury, Essex, following an argument with her boyfriend, Brian.

Keith Pontin

It was at the start of the following year that things turned sour for him at Ninian Park when he fell out with manager Len Ashurst after an argument and was allowed to leave the club to join Merthyr Tydfil.

Manchester capitalism

Led by Richard Cobden and John Bright, it won a wide hearing for its argument that free trade would lead to a more equitable society, making essential products available to all.

Neil Brooks

He once read the sports news segment while inebriated, and was then involved in a drunken argument with the Nine Network's Australian rules football pundit Sam Newman.

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

The main thrust of his argument is that we may be on the threshold of a new phase of development involving the creation of a unified global consciousness, along the lines suggested in the writings of Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Pat Hayes

In the middle 1990s, while serving as president of AAAI, Hayes began a series of attacks on critics of AI, mostly phrased in an ironic light, and (together with his colleague Kenneth Ford) invented an award named after Simon Newcomb to be given for the most ridiculous argument "disproving" the possibility of AI.

Paul Gilding

Furthermore, in a departure from many environmental writers — such as James Lovelock, Clive Hamilton, Richard Heinberg and James Howard Kunstler — Gilding argues that people will work together through the climate crisis and that humanity as a whole will eventually act in time to save civilization, albeit too late to prevent catastrophic consequences; Gilding bases this argument on the ingenuity of past generations in the midst of crisis, particularly World War II.

Philip Bounds

His book on George Orwell advances the controversial argument that Orwell's literary and cultural criticism was deeply influenced by the work of British communists.

Proto-Indo-Europeans

Another counter-argument is the fact that ancient Anatolia is known to have been inhabited by non-Indo-European people, namely the Hattians, Khalib/Karub, and Khaldi/Kardi; though this does not preclude the possibility that the earliest Indo-European speakers may have been there too.

Quartodecimanism

The rejection of Bishop Anicetus' position on the Quartodeciman by Polycarp, and later Polycrates' letter to Pope Victor I, has been used by Orthodox theologians as proof against the argument that the Churches in Asia Minor accepted the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and or the teaching of Papal supremacy.

Regress argument

The argument can be seen as a response to the suggestion in Plato's Theaetetus that knowledge is justified true belief.

Roberto Arias

Two months later he was shot in an argument with a friend and former political associate, Alberto Jiménez, on a street corner in a suburb of Panama City.

Selective Draft Law Cases

The Solicitor General's argument, and the court's opinion, were based primarily on Kneedler v. Lane, which was actually multiple opinions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War that upheld the Enrollment Act, and Vattel's The Law of Nations (1758).

Sereno Edwards Dwight

His publications include Life of David Brainerd (1822); Life and Works of Jonathan Edwards (ten volumes, 1830), of whom he was a great-grandson; The Hebrew Wife (1836), an argument against marriage with a deceased wife's sister; and Select Discourses (1851); to which was prefixed a biographical sketch by his brother William Dwight (1795–1865), who was also successively a lawyer and a Congregational preacher.

Tax protester constitutional arguments

Another argument is a missing amendment to the Constitution, known as the Titles of Nobility Amendment, which precedes the current Thirteenth Amendment.

The Ego and the Id

Besides this purely aesthetic reasoning, Freud gives no further argument for the existence of these two opposing instincts—save to (parenthetically) mention "anabolism and katabolism" (56), the cellular processes of building up and breaking down molecules.

The Gender War

Gudrun Schyman, spokesperson for the Feminist Initiative, questioned Rubar's main argument in an article in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper on the 24th of May 2005.

The God Argument

The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism is a 2013 book by English philosopher and humanist, A. C. Grayling, which counters the arguments for the existence of God, and puts forward humanism as an alternative to religion.

The Smile

In the ensuing argument, Jessica throws Brody's copy of the Quran on the floor.

Twin Earth thought experiment

Paul Boghossian raised an objection to the class of Twin-Earth-style arguments for externalism in the form of an argument that aims to show that externalism is incompatible with privileged self-knowledge.

Willie Andrews

On June 30, 2008, Andrews was arrested at his home in Mansfield, Massachusetts and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm when police responded to a call that Andrews allegedly pointed a handgun at his girlfriend's head during an argument.


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