Others have construed robustness arguments more along the lines of Putnam's "no miracle" argument for scientific realism, according to which the assumption of the reality of some theoretical entities is the best explanation for the predictive success of theories or, in the case of robustness, for the agreement of experimental results (Weber 2005, Ch. 8; Stegenga 2009).
The Trial Chamber construed these arguments as an allegation of bias on the part of the ICTY and of the Trial Chamber itself.
This thesis – broadly construed, the argument that modernization weakens religion – has led to claims, counterclaims, and counter-counterclaims that probably go back three centuries.
This thesis broadly construed, the argument that modernization weakens religion has led to claims, counterclaims, and counter-counterclaims that probably go back three centuries.
As Sextus construes his arguments, the contrast between 'ordinary life' and philosophical views leads to suspension of judgment (Vogt 2008a, ch. 1).
Attempts to construe skeptical arguments against intuition as a reductio of the supposition that intuitions have evidential worth will not be discussed below.
For example, he seemed to have some hesitation about whether arguments from analogy should be construed as inductions (arguments from a sample of the properties of things to a population of the properties of things) or abductions (conjectures made on the basis of sufficient similarity, which notion might not easily be analyzed in terms of sets of properties).
Construing this argument as applying to drawing balls from urns, the argument becomes: X% of the balls in this random sample are red; all the balls in this random sample are taken from this urn; therefore, X% of the balls in this urn are red.
Construing this argument as applying to drawing balls from urns, the argument becomes: X% of the balls in this urn are red; X% of the balls in this random sample are red; therefore, all the balls in this random sample are taken from this urn.
Generally speaking, an Aristotelian topos ('place'location'on') is an argumentative scheme that enables a dialectician or rhetorician to construe an argument for a given conclusion.
