Assertion: argument | /r/HasProperty | directed
Facets:
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
value: on the problem of other minds
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: towards supporting the claim
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: at
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Some defenders of Lewis[citation needed] claim that this objection misses the mark, because his argument is directed at what he calls the "veridicalness" of acts of reasoning (i.e., whether reasoning connects us with objective reality or truth), rather than with whether any inferred beliefs can be rational or justified in a materialistic world.
text: Some commentators, for instance, supposing it obvious that sensations are private, have interpreted the argument as intended to show they cannot be talked about; some, supposing the argument to be an obvious but unsustainable attempt to wrest special advantage from scepticism about memory, have maintained it to be unsound because it self-defeatingly implies the impossibility of public discourse as well as private; some have assumed it to be a direct attack on the problem of other minds; some have claimed it to commit Wittgenstein to behaviourism or verificationism; some have thought it to imply that language is, of necessity, not merely potentially but actually social (this has come to be called the ‘community view’ of the argument).
text: All the telling details, argumentation, quotation, and evidence in the paper are directed towards supporting the claim.
text: The argument which is closest to the verb is sometimes called the direct internal argument, while the others are called the indirect internal arguments.