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Isn't it precisely when connections of the sort represented by (1) ' just occur ' to someone that the great discoveries of philosophy and science take place ?

Isn't it all a matter of feeling and emotion, not something that a teacher should attempt to in-uence?

Isn't this the way you speak to a dowager duchess?

Isn't this reason enough to take to the streets?

Isn't quality of that sort the real threat to the public health?

Isn't it a matter of some audience members' exposure to the lyricism of unfamiliar patois dialogue?

Isn't there anything you feel straightforward simple certainty about ?

Isn't that tool particularly needed with such disparate research?

Isn't it possible that the epistemology he quotes in support of life, liberty, and property was just tagging along for the ride, merely ornamental?

Isn't this sort of strained interpretation a reason to place under scrutiny the urge to escape triviality from which it springs?

Isn't there a considerable interpretative power here, and thus, basically, a certain type of rationality?

Isn't it plain that antifoundational notions such as "neutrality" and "secularity" are themselves contested, just as the more traditional foundations are?

Isn't nostalgia a way of arguing about the present, too ?

Isn't it precisely in the link between composer and audience that energy for change can be created?

Not knowing in advance what the court will decide-isn't that a form of incompleteness of the contract?

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