If this comparison should appear to betray any extravagant estimate on my part of the cogency of the evidence which has thus far been presented, I will now in conclusion ask it to be remembered that my case is not yet concluded.
I should acknowledge the cogency of the reasons he assigns, and certainly entertain such a preference, did it not appear to me that there are opposing and irreconcileable claims and duties.
Weismann's demand for facts in support of the main proposition revealed at once that none having real cogency could be produced.
For the cogency of the proof in every instance depended upon the absence of explanation.
Whatever conclusions the scientist draws as necessary and universal results from his hypothesis for a world independent of his thought are due, not to the cogency of his logic, but to other considerations.
Even the contents of tridimensional space and sensuous time are not essential to the cogency of that reasoning nor can the unbroken web of the argument assure the content of the world as invariable.
This is the province within which a hedonistic account of the economic motive holds good with a cogency that anti-hedonistic criticism has not been able to dissolve.
This retention of hypotheses at the cost of cogency is of course in order to avoid a break with science.
To this indictment by Leslie Stephen we reply that it has cogency only so long as we ignore the fact of human sin.
These considerations somewhat lessen the cogency of this passage as a proof-text, yet upon the whole the balance of argument seems to us still to incline in favor of Ellicott's interpretation as given above.
In the meantime it is sufficient to say that whatever principles of conception and construction apply to the modern prose drama, apply with equalcogency to the poetic drama.
Paul Hervieu have all the neatness and cogency of a geometrical demonstration.
Other considerations combine with this underlying analogical factor to impart cogency and plausibility to a belief or custom; but the type of the logic, crooked though it be, is recognizable throughout.
If a new view can establish itself by its logicalcogency and displace an accepted doctrine, if new facts, adequately established, make necessary a revision of current generalizations, no scientist and no science will protest.
Together with an infinite brilliance of these resources there is not only no weakness in cogency of form, but there is a rare unity of design.
Bowing to an impatient demand for verbal meaning, Liszt invented the Symphonic Poem, in which the classiccogency yielded to the loose thread of a musical sketch in one movement, slavishly following the sequence of some literary subject.
Pulpit invectives against sin often lose half their terrible cogency because we are too prudish to describe the sins which we denounce.
But I must remark that any cogency which Mr. Wallace's argument may appear to present, arises from his not having recognized the fact which the statement conveys.
This is a consideration the cogencyof which was clearly recognized by Darwin, as the following quotations will show.
This kind of evidence, however, presents much less cogency than is usually supposed.
Every belief is the product of two factors: the first is the state of the mind to which the evidence in favour of that belief is presented; and the second is the logicalcogency of the evidence itself.
The report is a rational construction based and seated in present experience; it has no cogency for the inattentive and no existence for the ignorant.
Innumerable madmen make no difference to the laws of thought, which borrow their authority from the inward intent and cogency of each rational mind.
Such romancing has the cogency proper to dramatic poetry; it is persuasive only over the third person, who has never had, but has always been about to have, the experience in question.
The wholecogency of such psychology, therefore, lies in the ease with which the hearer, on listening to the analysis, recasts something in his own past after that fashion.
These have not yet revealed the secret of their structure, and clear insight is vouchsafed us only in such regions as that of mathematical physics, where cogency in the ideal system is combined with adequacy to explain the phenomena.
If dialectic takes a turn which makes it inapplicable in physics, which makes it worthless for mastering experience, it loses all its dignity: for abstract cogency has no dignity if the subject-matter into which it is introduced is trivial.
Two ways of appreciating this cogency are open to us.
Whatever of strange interest the curious characteristics of the canals themselves suggested was now greatly increased by this addition; for the solidarity of the phenomenon affected the cogency of any argument derived from it.
The position of the canals, with regard to the main features of the disk, has a cogency of its own, an argument from time.
On the moon, not only does their shape suggest this previous condition, but the smooth and even look of their surfaces adds to the cogency of the inference.
This habit of writing with the audience before us not only secures cogency and point for our arguments and clearness for our illustrations, but it saves us from the fatal mistake of producing not a sermon but an essay.
He succeeds pretty well as far as the sublunar world is concerned, and no one who is free from prejudice can fail to see the cogency of his reasoning.
The same reasons which Ibn Daud brings forward against the possibility of the existence of many souls before the body, apply with equal cogency to their survival after death.
In no other community would the story of Hester Prynne acquire an equal cogency and significance.
This may have been prudent policy, but Hawthorne felt for the sufferers, and the memorial that he submitted to our government on their account has a dignity, a clearness and cogency of statement, worthy of Blackstone or Marshall.
A considerable number of objections which are urged against the supernatural elements of Christianity, derive whatever cogency they possess from the assumption that there is a God who is the moral Governor of the universe.
Steadily with the growth of knowledge has its cogency diminished, and such a belief could only have been formulated at a time when the facts of variation were unknown.
They gave a cogency to the Article, which had escaped me at first.
