THE TORNADO: THEORIES; OBJECTIONS

Marx’s objections to credit theories of money

right, or the power of demanding services in general, which may, or may not be commodities’ (Ibid: 35). The most advanced form of such transferable debt had no intrinsic value, typically paper, so the intrinsic value of silver or gold as money was ‘secondary’ (Ibid: 45). Gold and silver were only the most civilised of a lineage of representatives of labour, including shells and chocolate — clea...

Tornado Warnings and Tornado Fatalities : The Case of May 22 , 2011 Tornado in Joplin , Missouri

Objections to hospital philosophers.

Like morally sensitive hospital staff, philosophers resist routine simplification of morally complex cases. Like hospital clergy, they favour reflective and principled decision-making. Like hospital lawyers, they refine and extend the language we use to formulate and defend our complex decisions. But hospital philosophers are not redundant: they have a wider range of principles and categories a...

Conscientious objections to reform.

Objections, Rebuttals and Refutations

This paper considers how the terms ‘objection,’ ‘rebuttal,’ ‘attack,’ ‘refutation,’ ‘rebutting defeater’ and ‘undercutting defeater’ (often referred to as rebutters versus undercutters) are used in writings on argumentation and artificial intelligence. The central focus is on the term ‘rebuttal.’ A provisional classification system is proposed that provides a normative structure within which th...