Sentence examples for mere reasoning from inspiring English sources

"The description so often given of a Benthamite, as a mere reasoning machine... was during two or three years of my life not altogether untrue of me," he confessed much later.

It should be stressed that the atomistic assumption that the human mind, by mere reasoning, can know the properties of the atoms is a necessary consequence of the idea that atoms are not subject to internal change; for the changeless can never be a subject of experimentation.

In more cases than not, breeding schemes, their components, and interactions between these components do not allow optimum breeding plans to be designed by mere reasoning.

Even Spinoza suggests that the highest stages of knowledge consist in a form of intuitive insight, which transcends mere reasoning or conceptual knowledge in that it enables us to grasp the essence of individual things.

The next year, Story published an abridgment for schools, explaining that the Constitution "is the language of the People, to be judged of according to the common sense, and not by mere theoretical reasoning".

The crucial problem with this procedure is how to avoid mere circular reasoning, or rather, how to make sure that the cause, whose existence is demonstrated in the first step, is indeed the cause of this very effect.

If they do come to such recognition, perhaps by finding a focal point, then the Pure Coordination game is transformed into the following game known as Hi-Lo: Crucially, here the transformation requires more than mere team reasoning.

In fact, several arguments to this effect with affinity to the mere addition reasoning outlined above have been presented (see e.g. Parfit 1986; Arrhenius 2000a, b; Kitcher 2000; Tännsjö 2002; Rachels 2004).

The network is very complex and mere intuitive reasoning is not sufficient to understand its behavior.

Supreme Court Justices use judicial craft and precedent to distinguish their reasoning from mere attitude, but in the end, in hard cases, their reasoning does not escape their basic values.

Rather than being mere rationalization, post hoc reasoning might be a process of trying to articulate the considerations one's intuitive judgments were responsive to.