Judging from the reasonable cause-of-death distributions obtained for children and adults, and the fact that the InterVA-4 model has not returned any unexpected or unreasonable cause or causes of death in the elderly, the cause-of-death structure obtained can be accepted as a reasonable reflection of the pattern of mortality among the elderly in the area.
To start with, it must be noted that long before the verification principle proper entered Circle's discourse in the late 1920s, the thought expressed by Mach's dictum that "where neither confirmation nor refutation is possible, science is not concerned" (1883 [1960, 587]) was accepted as a basic precept of critical reflection about science.
I was accepted as a poet.
The difficult language in the reports was accepted as being a reflection of the evidence-base covered and the wide variety of target audiences other than local decision-makers, who are more likely to engage with local businesses, community groups, stakeholders, and internal staff on issues such as domestic energy efficiency.
It is a movement of "awakening self-reflection", in which the form-law governing our involuntary (aesthetic) approval or disapproval of human actions or situations is elevated to norm-law, i.e., is accepted as binding on me, and to which I have a responsibility that I accept (cf. Weiss 1928: 216).
Since only students evaluations that included comments and action plans were accepted as valid, we found that every posted evaluation represented an active exercise of self-reflection that is usually wanting in other evaluation methods.
A P < 0.05 was accepted as significant.
This is more or less a correct reflection of the extent of prevailing poverty, and therefore needs to be accepted as the new poverty line.
"Questions of virtue thus inevitably allude to a social hierarchy that was generally accepted as a reflection of the hierarchy of creation, an order in nature or of nature, instituted not fortuitously but providentially, and therefore not subject to alteration by human beings," (Jordan 1990, 21).
In America, we typically see the value of livestock as an impersonal reflection of its value on the open market (obviously, not everyone views cattle this way, but this perspective is accepted and reasonable).
