Sentence examples for evidential grounds from inspiring English sources

Although the district court eventually (2008) awarded the plaintiffs $926 million, its judgment was later (2010) reversed and remanded by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals on procedural (rather than evidential) grounds.

Hence, no assumption can exhibit any evidential advantage over another assumption or can be challenged on evidential grounds.

In a democratic society, there are many other voices claiming authority, whether on presumed evidential grounds or as part of campaigns to manipulate public opinion.

Traditional philosophical accounts such as mathematical theories of measurement do not elaborate on the assumptions, inference patterns, evidential grounds or success criteria associated with such methods.

The brand of fideism for which Bishop argues is thus 'supra-evidential' in the sense that it defends the permissibility of reasoning on the basis of commitments that outrun what is warranted on purely evidential grounds.

This strategy has apparently not been able to reduce the widespread utilization of scientifically irrelevant fallacies in creationist (or evolutionist) texts, and also previous reports have suggested that natural scientists should concentrate on discussing ID claims based on purely evidential grounds (Boudry et al. [2010b, 2012]).

Setting aside, as a psychological rather than a philosophical problem, the question of how human beings arrive at their ideas about the world, he proceeded to construe empiricism as a systematic-logical thesis about the evidential grounding of empirical knowledge.

But he observes that many beliefs have causes that do not constitute an evidential grounding of their truth: James labels these causes 'passional' again, a potentially misleading term, since it includes much more than emotional causes of belief.

James is thus able to explain the psychological possibility of doxastic venture: one already has a 'passionally' caused belief, which one then takes to be true in practical reasoning while recognising its lack of adequate evidential grounding (compare Creel 1994, who takes 'faith' to connote a 'non-evidential doxastic passion').

A doxastic venture model of theistic faith thus reconciles faith as gift with faith as an action: the action is taking a faith-proposition to be true in practical reasoning; the gift provides the motivational resources for so doing, namely a firm belief in the truth of the faith-proposition, despite its recognised lack of adequate evidential grounding.

However, evidence of successful interventions is currently limited, and interventions are being used that have limited evidential grounding.