Sentence examples for conceptual claims from inspiring English sources

Rather than stressing skeptical empirical claims about the (un reliability of legislative history and the chaos of the legislative process, second-generation textualism features more conceptual claims about the crucial role that legislative compromise plays in our constitutional system.

Assessing arguments in (1) to (3) requires assessing empirical and conceptual claims.

On matters of methodology, later commentators on Austin's work have had difficulty determining whether he is best understood as making empirical claims about the law or conceptual claims; elements of each sort of approach can be found in his writings (Lobban 1991: pp. 224 225; Cotterrell 2003: pp. 81 83).

The tendency to appeal to common sense and the phenomenology of moral action would seem to betray some temptation to treat the issue as at least partly empirical, though perhaps these appeals are meant to serve merely as a check on conceptual claims.

These tend to be theoretical or conceptual claims, however, rather than concerted empirical demonstrations.

Sadly enough, clinical and preclinical studies supporting the conceptual claims that e-cigarettes are significantly safer than conventional tobacco products are not backed by a body of research evidence.

How plausible is Mackie's conceptual claim?

If we deny this, we can concede the conditional claim whilst resisting Mackie's conceptual claim.

For defence of Mackie's conceptual claim, see Smith (1994), Ch.3.

However, there is an additional conceptual claim that is less clear.

While Railton's version of moral realism attempts to block Mackie's overall argument by conceding his ontological claim whilst rejecting his conceptual claim, other versions of moral realism agree with Mackie's conceptual claim but reject his ontological claim.