The phrase "alternative basis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different foundations or grounds for an argument, decision, or analysis.
Example: "We should consider an alternative basis for our conclusions to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the issue."
Alternatives: "different foundation" or "substitute rationale".
As an alternative basis for the disabilities act, Congress also invoked its power to regulate interstate commerce, a power that clearly justifies, for example, prohibiting discrimination in employment.
"As you appear to have no alternative basis of stay in the United Kingdom you should now make arrangements to leave," Hawkins's rejection letter stated.
"To oppose the president without laying out a credible alternative basis for a two-state solution is to embrace a status quo leading to the eventual loss of Israel as we know and love it," its statement said.
The rumoured shift of medical research and/or education spending to the Department of Health may have failed to materialise, but it will be interesting to see how both AHRC and ESRC priorities maybe effected by the need to find alternative basis for funding beyond BIS.
More importantly, the study proposes an alternative basis and methodology for segmenting shoppers.
At the very least, then, those who advocate NEP owe us an alternative basis for individuating conscious states.
A document circulated with the committee resolution points from Thursday said that there would be an alternative legal basis for the United States to seek data -- the E.U.-U.S. Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance -- though this places more constraints on the party seeking data.
We introduce an alternative conceptual basis for default reasoning in Reiter's default logic.
It is noted that several alternative radial basis functions without spread constants, such as the thin-plate spline, give excellent results.
This article analyzes the spatial dynamics of Guadalajara taken an alternative theoretical basis related to knowledge network framework as productive ecosystem.
In his doctoral research Krause began a critique, now very advanced, of received ontological approaches in quantum ontology that appeal admit indiscernible but not identical individuals, leading Krause to develop an alternative mathematical basis, "quasi-set theory", a work of growing interest to metaphysicians, naturalists, and students of formal methods in philosophy.
