Sentence examples for In the bad case from inspiring English sources

But if the commonsense beliefs are no less reasonable when held in the bad case, then the individual's evidence for those beliefs must be just as strong in the bad case as in the good case.

We should distinguish between two different intuitions one might have about a thinker in the bad case.

The first intuition is that a thinker in the bad case has exactly the same evidence as a thinker in the good case.

In attributing beliefs to an individual in the bad case, one attributes exactly those beliefs that one would attribute if the same individual were in the good case.

He suggests, plausibly, that this is a potentially more embarrassing consequence for such a theory: 'Even if one is willing to accept the result that one is sometimes more rational in the good case than in the bad case, it is harder to live with the claim that one is sometimes more rational in the bad case than the good case' (p. 390).

12. Silins (2005) contends that there are also circumstances in which the thinker in the good case ends up being less reasonable than the thinker in the bad case.

In view of its apparent consequences for the theory of evidence, the idea that one's evidence is the same in the good case and the bad case warrants further scrutiny.

A different tack is pursued by Williamson, who argues at length that we should not accept the idea that one has the same evidence in the good case and the bad case.

But what's in a bad case of the sweats?

Japan in recent years has exhibited the first bad case of deflation in a big economy since the 1930s.

The authorities were looking into why Mr. Morris was released from prison in April and not transferred to Jacksonville, Fla., where warrants had been issued in the bad-check case.