Since upholders of SDF maintain that fallacies are invalid arguments, Massey's asymmetry thesis has the consequence that no argument can be convicted of being a fallacy on logical grounds.[6] The informal logic approach to fallacies is taken in Johnson and Blair's Logical Self-Defence, a textbook first published in 1977.
What was not accepted was Aristotle's argument on logical grounds that the world was eternal, extending infinitely into the past and the future even though it had finite spatial extent.
He favored the latter, and he seemed to have lost that argument on logical grounds.
But the idea that it is obligatory that it is either raining or not raining, something that couldn't be otherwise on logical grounds, seems counterintuitive.
It would seem that Weyl intends a relativised or conditional 'a priori' in this context: if certain features or principles of the general theory of relativity are true, then Mach's principle can be rejected on logical grounds alone.
This information center hypothesis (ICH) has since stimulated a lot of empirical work, but it has also been criticized on logical grounds [12], [13].
Williams also argued against those scientists who reasoned that the mind is self-evident on logical grounds.
In contrast to the Cartesian and crypto-Cartesian conception of the brain/mind, Aristotelians argue on logical grounds that the application of mental predicates to others is based on behaviour.
Processes that fulfill these conditions, conditions that are derived purely on logical grounds, are prone to be cumulative and to translate into vital rates in a non-linear fashion, so that high ages are affected much more than early ages.
The usual method is to identify on logical grounds a fraction of the genome that is putatively evolving neutrally (e.g., 4-fold degenerate silent sites, pseudogenes, intergenic regions, etc).
