Now an argument against contingency of will on the assumption that we intend, under this title, to represent volitions as existing without a cause, is irrelevant, since we mean no such thing.
Edwards's argument against a contingent, self-determining will, drawn from the divine prescience, remains to be considered.
Therefore, instead of being an argument against religion, it is an argument for it.
A skilful man can frame an argument against the validity of religion, but he can't frame an argument against sin.
No Argument Against Sin So, my friend, if I had paid for some property from you with a price, I could command you, and if you wouldn't give it to me I could go into court and make you yield.
For if this act of theirs be borne in mind, and intelligently used in argument against them, they will have no answer whatsoever that they can make.
If the definiend be in its nature capable of receiving two contrary attributes, and if the respondent define it by one or other of them, you have an argument against him.
Analogous cases or propositions:--If the respondent affirms A as proprium of B, you have an argument against him by showing that something analogous to A is not proprium of a subject analogous to B.
Locus from More and Less:--Suppose the respondent to affirm A as proprium of B: you will have an argument against him, if you can show that what is more A is not proprium of that which is more B.
It is strange, that the will of the people, who send us here, is to have no influence in this House, but is to be turned into an argument against passing a law!
Thus their artillery is turned on themselves, for their own interpretation is an argument against itself.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "argument against" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
