Sentence examples for contrary reasoning from inspiring English sources

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(For present purposes, set aside worries about the vagueness of 'bald'.) And as Russell noted, the following contrary reasoning is spurious: every proposition is true or false; so the present king of France is bald or not; so there is a king of France, and he is either bald or not.

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At my daughter's middle school, some teachers take the contrary position, reasoning that their error raised a student's hopes; the extra points compensate him for his disappointment and reward him for his honesty.

On the contrary, inductive reasoning is very useful to create hypotheses about possible future developments.

Contrary to the reasoning of David Lacey, Keegan is now a pundit.

Contrary to this reasoning, however, we have rejected the notion that police may seize evidence without a warrant only when they come across the evidence by happenstance.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected]Contrary to the reasoning put forward in your reaction to the shooting in Tucson ("The blame game", January 15th), there is in fact no demonstrable connection between gun regulations and gun violence.

Rogers v. Graves, supra, is contrary to the reasoning and to the conclusions reached in the Gerhardt case and in Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell, supra; Group No. 1 Oil Corporation v. Bass, 283 U.S. 279, 51 S.Ct.

We propose a new version of this kind of deontic logic that has very nice meta-logical properties, avoids many of the traditional problems of deontic logics and has an appealing treatment of contrary to duty reasoning.

To the contrary, because moral reasoning has important implications about moral facts and moral theories, these close relations lend additional interest to the topic of moral reasoning.

Contrary to such reasoning, the effects of zinc lozenges on the nasal symptoms were not significantly different compared with the symptoms that originated in the lower anatomical regions.

The negative effect was contrary to the reasoning provided in the introduction since trust in the health care system was assumed to increase acceptance of euthanasia.

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