Sentence examples for intuitive grounds from inspiring English sources

Marriages were entered into on largely intuitive grounds.

His knowledge of the inverse square relation rested only on intuitive grounds; he did not derive it properly from the quantitative statement of centripetal force and Kepler's third law, which relates the periods of planets to the radii of their orbits.

Second, Hume's dictum is usually defended on directly intuitive grounds.

Termination of Gentzen's reduction procedure can be proved instead by induction on well-founded trees ("bar-induction"), a principle that was used by Gentzen on intuitive grounds.

Prior justifies the axioms and rules of Q on purely intuitive grounds; he provides no real logic for which Q is a complete (or even incomplete) proof theory.

There are fairly strong intuitive grounds for the thesis that having arisen from the exact sperm and egg that one has is an individual essence of every human person, or at least of every human body.

Colonel Mathewson, director of the Air Force's task force on unmanned aerial systems, said that while upgrades have been made to control stations, the service plans to eventually shift to simpler and more intuitive ground systems that could allow one remote pilot to control several drones.

As basis for morality, Mill believed that his principle of utility has a stronger intuitive grounding that Kant's reliance on reason, and can better explain why certain actions are right or wrong.

But the decline is also intuitive, and grounded in what we feel about the city.

The approach used to define the summary scores was intuitive, but grounded in relative effect sizes from epidemiological meta-analyses[ 18- 24].

Although not statistically significant given our limited power, the trend we detected between stream gradient and selection for fish size is intuitive on several grounds.