Teachers welcomed Dr. Kahane's advocacy of critical thinking because it showed their students how to take apart an argument or text and assess its logical merits.
Logical empiricists debated the merits of the two stances, exploring the difficulties of making precise the notion of partial interpretation and the possibility of finding axiomatic systems that would generate all the observational consequences without employing any theoretical vocabulary.
Whatever their ethical merits, both views make logical sense.
The logical conclusion is that the White House weighed the relative merits of doing a favor for wealthy Saudis versus getting to the bottom of America's greatest national security disaster and came down in favor of the Saudis.
The logical status of variables and the nature of their measurements merited close consideration because of the central role of statistical analyses in the present study.
Elites expect to see a tight, logical connection between worker contributions and payroll compensation, but substitute an astronomically inflated merit metric when it comes to executive, investor and celebrity rewards.
David Holt, the group's president, told The Huffington Post that the CEA didn't intend for the petition to be "specific to merits of any rate case" and instead it was about presenting "sensible, logical, balanced positions" on electricity.
In a short essay at 3quarksdaily, Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse propose that when considering the merits of such arguments, theists ought not overlook their "evil twins:" arguments with the same logical structure, but which proceed in the opposite direction.
Beside its own merits (mathematics is full of such propositions), this kind of analyticity is an intermediate step towards logical analyticity.
"O happy fault, that merited so great a Redeemer!" (This position is known theologically as "supralapsarianism"). Paul offers no logical explanation of God's actions.
It may be that persuading panel members of the potential merits of an application is more difficult than focusing on the less abstract, methodological weaknesses and logical flaws.
