Sentence examples for ground for preferring from inspiring English sources

But there is at least a case to be made that the process of arguing for and against a thesis, in the way Carneades did, can leave one stuck with a view one way or the other, but without being aware of any rational ground for preferring this view.

It can give us no grounds for preferring what is excellent to what is sensationalistic".

Recently, John Horty (Horty 2007) has examined the implications of adding priorities among defaults (in the form of a partial ordering), which would permit the recognition of specificity and other grounds for preferring one default to another.

Barnes takes there to be no grounds for preferring either interpretation (Barnes 1984), but Taylor argues that Leucippus' position is that an account (or logos) can be given of the causes of all occurrences (Taylor 1999, p. 189).

In an influential critique, Bratman objects that choice is possible even when one sees no grounds for preferring A to B, or B to A; one can decide between equivalents (Bratman 1985, §V).

Although Hobbes offered some mild pragmatic grounds for preferring monarchy to other forms of government, his main concern was to argue that effective government whatever its form must have absolute authority.

Applying the general methodological principle that a theory which does not contain such surplus structure is to be preferred over one that does, Redhead and Teller conclude that we have grounds for preferring the non-individuals package and the mystery of the inaccessible states simply does not arise (Redhead and Teller 1991 and 1992).

There are therefore strong grounds for preferring double reading with arbitration to single reading with CAD.

However, such considerations cannot be used as grounds for preferring one exposure curve over another.

Such a level of objection might amount to grounds for preferring Mental Health Act detention to deprivation of liberty under the Mental Capacity Act.

In five of the eight questions, physicians used words or phrases that are characterised by linguists as having 'negative polarity.' These words and phrases are held to reveal (in their formulations) that the questioner 'has grounds for preferring one answer to another in this case a negative answer' 37 (see also Borkin 38 and Heritage 39).