Second, Peirce held that, in order to ascertain the probability of a particular argument, the observer notes all occasions on which all of its premisses are true, case by case, just as they come under observation.
One can ascertain the probability of an aggregation of decay events from a lump of radium with sufficient precision to define its half-life spot on.
By bioinformatics methods, random mutations were introduced in Sequence #2 to ascertain the probability of compensatory base pair changes arising by random base changes.
Unfortunately, the authors of this study never released the raw data so that a valid single-variable analysis could be conducted to ascertain the probability of an association between Thimerosal exposure and the risk of autism.
Thus, to make appropriate therapeutic decision when a diagnosis is uncertain, the clinician has to: 1) ascertain the probability of a patient having the disease, and 2) decide whether the potential treatment benefits will outweigh its harms.
It was ascertained that the probability of instability due to high differential stresses was considerably increased by the presence of fractures.
Risk, he ascertains, is the probability of failure, while consequence is the gravity of the consequence.
The next step is to ascertain the conditional probability of an event being a 'particular' magnitude (e.g. VEI 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7).
