Sentence examples for cumulative arguments from inspiring English sources

But di Robilant's cumulative arguments imply that despite it all, the Zen narrative might be true.

True to Hempel's advice (cited earlier) about comprehensive inquiry, it is increasingly common to see philosophies scientific naturalism or theism advanced with cumulative arguments, a whole range of considerations, and not with a supposed knock-down, single proof.

The components of a cumulative argument exist, but they are broken up and scattered randomly throughout the book.

These considerations are often used jointly in a cumulative argument.

As a result he qualified evidentialism by insisting that an implicit and cumulative argument could lead to justified certainty.

Notable in this regard are Mitchell's cumulative argument (Mitchell 1973) and Swinburne's Bayesian reliance on probability (Swinburne 1979).

McNamara 1996b provides a cumulative case arguments that "must" not "ought" is the dual of permissibility, and thus that it is this almost universally ignored term "must", not "ought", that tracks the traditional concern in ethical theory and deontic logic with permissibility.

The next paragraph [XIII] states the cumulative conclusions of the arguments marshalled beginning with the arguments for absolute time in paragraph V: "Hence relative quantities are not the quantities themselves, whose names they bear, but are only sensible measures of them (either accurate or inaccurate), which are commonly used in place of the quantities they measure".

Based on previous nano-mechanical arguments, the cumulative probability distribution function of strength of each fiber constituting the bundle is assumed to exhibit a power-law left tail.

(On the cumulative force of these arguments, see section 5.4).

Mr. Phillippe did not find it necessary to answer Mrs. Soss's argument for cumulative voting.