Quotes About Argument

There's always something to say on both sides, even when one's a wrong side. That's what makes it all so tiresome-makes you wish you were dead. Take the right side and stick to that.

It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. Know,

Now, Christian, keep the plains and thou art safe. It is plain, we are not to make election a ground for our faith, but our faith and calling a medium or argument to prove our election.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

We're not arguing. We're discussing." "You're a lawyer; you don't know the difference. I'm arguing.

THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: A SIMPLE FORMATION Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God. The universe exists. Therefore, the explanation of the universe's existence is God.

William Lane Craig

my favorite is the cosmological argument. But cosmological and teleological arguments don't touch people where they live. The

the atheist philosopher Quentin Smith unceremoniously crowned Stephen Hawking's argument against God in A Brief History of Time as "the worst atheistic argument in the history of Western thought."[3] With the advent of The God Delusion the time has come, I think, to relieve Hawking of this weighty crown and to recognize Richard Dawkins' accession to the throne.

THE KALAM COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: A SIMPLE FORMULATION

Premise The steps of an argument that lead to the conclusion are called the premises of the argument.

Ghazali frames his argument simply: "Every being which begins has a cause for its beginning; now the world is a being which begins; therefore, it possesses a cause for its beginning.

THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: A SIMPLE FORMATION Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God. The universe exists. Therefore, the explanation of the universe's existence is God. Logically speaking, this is

Reductio ad absurdum, or reduction to absurdity, is a form of argument that proves a statement by demonstrating that its opposite is absurd.

A good argument must obey the rules of logic; express true premises; and have premises more plausible than their opposites.

Dios aún te ama y te hace responsable. Haré todo lo posible para presentarte buenos argumentos. Pero al final tienes que tratar, no con argumentos, sino con Dios mismo.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

There is a certain internal logic to Paul's argument which suggests that he sees a close link between denying God's true nature in idolatry and then going on to deny the true nature of human sexual relations: both are marks of sinfulness and alienation. This is all the more likely if the allusion to those deserving death in 1.32 derives directly from the prohibition of same-sex relations in Leviticus 20.13.

His face looked like an argument you couldn't win.