Sentence examples for certain postulates from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, his emphasis now is on certain postulates of causation which he takes to be fundamental to scientific (inductive) inference, and Russell's aim is to show how scientific inference is possible.

Using an approach that postulates certain desirable properties of decision functions and derives further characteristics from these, a new decision procedure based on the cross sum ratio is investigated.

In order to exhibit the physical basis for the structural constraints, which a principle theory postulates certain events must satisfy, such structures contained in the mathematical model of the theory should have a link to physical experience.

He was evidently right given that not only is the modern logic of predicates richer than the traditional (syllogistic) logic, but in order to carry out the logicist project, one is even led to expand logic again by certain set-theoretic postulates of existence.

CFA postulates certain relationships among the observed and the latent variables assuming a pre-specified pattern for the model parameters, such as factor loadings, factor correlations and error variances.

A truthmaker account of ontological commitment is suggested by Armstrong (2004: 23): "To postulate certain truthmakers for certain truths is to admit those truthmakers to one's ontology".

Certain reports have postulated that NPs can induce phytotoxicity and have negative impacts on overall plant metabolism, but simultaneously the exclusive properties of NPs can be used to improve crop performance as well.

The nineteenth century economist William Jevons, for example, measured changes in the value of gold by postulating certain causal relationships between the value of gold, the supply of gold and the general level of prices (Hoover and Dowell 2001: 155 159; Morgan 2001: 239).

The reduction of the synaptic strength below a certain threshold is postulated to cause synaptic destabilization and acute schizophrenic symptoms.

Certain cytokines are postulated to have a central role in the neurodevelopmental defects in SZ [ 18, 19].

This information can be used to postulate certain mechanistic differences between direct thymine starvation in thymidylate synthase deficient mutants and thymine starvation by anti-folate inhibitors.