Sentence examples for class of arguments from inspiring English sources

Techniques of formal logic (also called symbolic logic) were developed for a very large class of arguments involving words such as and, or, not, some, all, and, in modal logic, possibly (or possible) and necessarily (or necessary).

Social obligation is a poor basis for a general condemnation of suicide because it can just as easily be used to justify, and even promote, suicide in certain circumstances.This problem is avoided by another class of arguments against suicide based on the axiom that there is an intrinsic value to all human life, and that suicide is therefore wrong.

Occasionally he swerved between one view and another concerning which larger class of arguments a particular instance or sub-type of argument belonged to.

Recently, Marc Lange (2009a) has argued that a whole class of arguments fail to be explanatory, namely arguments by mathematical induction.

The modes functioned first as abbreviations of arguments that brought out their logically relevant form; and second, it seems, as representatives of the form of a class of arguments.

And for argument involving only factual propositions, the converse is also true: the same class of arguments necessarily preserves truth, necessarily preserves certainty and necessarily preserves probability in the sense of PPP.

By contrast, other classes of arguments that are sometimes described as paternalistic, including soft paternalism, weak paternalism, and libertarian paternalism, are evoked more frequently.

Prior to about 1865, thinkers on logic commonly had divided arguments into two subclasses: the class of deductive arguments (a.k.a. necessary inferences) and the class of inductive arguments (a.k.a. probable inferences).

Table 5 provides examples of the kinds of arguments used on different issues; we note that both supporters and opponents used the same classes of argument, and a detailed review of argument types suggested that there were few differences across groups.

We have rehearsed elsewhere five classes of argument that collectively make it implausible that these are all contamination artefacts; probably the most persuasive is simply the sheer number of prokaryotic DNA molecules that can be measured in blood and serum (e.g. 381– 381).

The sorites paradox is the name given to a class of paradoxical arguments, also known as little-by-little arguments, which arise as a result of the indeterminacy surrounding limits of application of the predicates involved.