These theorists may distinguish mere reliability from trustworthiness on the grounds that people known or considered to be trustworthy have the power to betray us, whereas people known or considered to be merely reliable can only disappoint us (Holton 1994).
The Senate bill aims more realistically to enhance merely the reliability and resilience of America's computer and communications networks.
Such necessary correspondences between thought and the world might then serve as a basis for claims to a priori knowledge in at least a reliabilist epistemology, where what's important is not a believer's ability to justify his claims, but merely the reliability of the processes by which he arrived at them.
My fellow travelers, many of them friends, insist that their late-model transports are not meant to bespeak prosperity, status, but merely to ensure reliability: why should they put up with question marks when they can afford exclamation points?
The result will be an examination that is genuinely better at measuring ability, rather than one that merely pushes up reliability by other means of little real consequence.
In this approach, the statistical equating error is merely a function of the reliability of the two instruments, that is, the reliability with which trait levels can be estimated using either of the two instruments.
No defender of a reliable process theory of justification is apt to regard reliability as determined merely by the actual frequency of true versus false belief production or sustenance.
These were not encouraging numbers, given that diagnostic reliability isn't merely an academic issue: if psychiatrists can't agree on a patient's condition, then they can't agree on the treatment of that condition, and, essentially, there's no relationship between diagnosis and cure.
DSM-5 cheapens the coinage of reliability by hyping these merely okay levels as "very good".
Therefore, it is recommended to develop PGD within a scientific research protocol and to counsel prospective parents adequately and inform them that a first PGD cycle may be carried out merely to gather information on the reliability of PGD [ 18].
