This separation of reason and faith undermined the position of Scholastic philosophy generally, because much of it represented an attempt to bolster articles of faith by speculative reasoning.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority HFEAA), refuses to sanction such techniques, noting the diversity within the autism spectrum and the extent to which sex selection represented an overly speculative way of screening.
I must say that we need to be careful not to be overly speculative because making the leap from a mouse to human in this specific case is difficult.
The declaration of these teachings was held to make explicit things that were implicit in the apostolic witness but had required centuries of devotional practice and speculative reasoning to be brought out.
If highly educated people are more capable of the speculative reasoning that is needed for intellectual inquiry, they may also be more able or willing to make the abstractions needed to support religious beliefs.
Rieff integrates history and political analysis, reporting and personal reflection, in an interesting way, only occasionally slipping into overly speculative and abstract digressions.
We decided that including a thorough discussion of this possibility in our current manuscript would be overly speculative without further evidence for such a mechanism.
However, the age-related differences were so small that we feel it would be overly speculative to expand on this issue.
Given our rudimentary understanding of these issues, any proposed mechanistic connection to the pathogenesis of gingival hyperplasia in CCB-treated patients would be overly speculative at this time, but worthy of future study.
Essential revisions: 1) Given that mice were only followed for 6 weeks after satellite cell depletion, concluding that the modest decline in satellite cell numbers with aging contributes to NMJ impairments and muscle dysfunction associated with aging is overly speculative.
Factors that can result in inter-loci nucleotide-diversity discrepancy include selection (e.g., balancing-, purifying-, or positive-selection) and inconsistencies in the mutation rate across the plastid genome; however, without interspecific ptDNA-divergence data, it would be overly speculative to focus on any one of these factors.
