Sentence examples for evidential role from inspiring English sources

The case for claiming that the visual experience has an evidential role is as follows.

Note that Kuhn is not claiming that measurement has no evidential role to play in science.

Many realists contend that other considerations most prominently, explanatory considerations play an evidential role in scientific inference.

So the visual experience plays an evidential role in our recognising as valid the step from the second equation to the third.

The challenge is to specify what role observation plays in measurement, and particularly what sort of connection with observation is necessary and/or sufficient to allow measurement to play an evidential role in the sciences.

Setting aside knowledge acquired by testimony (reading or hearing that such-&-such is the case), there remain plenty of cases where sensory experience seems to play an evidential role in coming to know some mathematical fact.

News of borderline status has an evidential character.

Evidential problems have a lesser role because so few cases get to court.

Even though the innovations studied were of various contents and originated from diverse organisational contexts, innovators' accounts converged to the significant role of the evidential base of success, the inter-personal and inter-organisational networks, and the inner and outer context.

A new generation of sociologists of science, among them Barry Barnes, Steven Shapin, and Harry Collins, took Kuhn's emphasis on the role of non-evidential community factors in scientific change even further than he had and argued that scientific judgment was determined by social factors, such as professional interests and political ideologies (Barnes 1977, Shapin 1982, Collins 1983).

The developments listed above had transformed the evidential base for asserting the powerful role of opportunity in crime.