As mentioned in the introduction, we are fully aware of the fact that a qualitative analysis, illustrated with a few selected examples, does not provide the ground for sounded scientific conclusions as a quantitative analysis would.
Having established this result in the case of hallucinations, dreams, sensory illusions, etc., the representationalist must find a ground for extending this conclusion to veridical perception.
For most of them provide, at best, very tenuous grounds for any conclusion concerning the moral character of any omnipotent and omniscient being who may happen to exist, and almost none of them provides any support for the hypothesis that there is an omnipotent and omniscient being who is also morally perfect.
In other potentially persuasive arguments, the premises give no rational grounds for accepting the conclusion.
Once we remove suffering and flourishing, for example, there is no natural grounding for the logical conclusion that human beings deserve dignity.
Not that I can blame them for leaping to a conclusion my experiment didn't lay the ground for, and not only because women's self-loathing makes a catchier sound byte than Hegelian dialectics.
It appeared that Kirchner and Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert did not realize that they had undermined the ground for the ginkgoalean affinity of the fossil and uncritically accepted the previous conclusion as true [ 24].
Alfred Wallace, a scientist who travelled to the Malaysian archipelago and came to similar conclusions to Darwin, was a Dorset man – partly due to its geology, the county was an experiment ground for so much thought and activity.
"Little ground for hope".
