Sentence examples for pieces of reasoning from inspiring English sources

Particular pieces of reasoning in Mohist texts may be deductive, inductive, analogical, or causal.

This is a truly astonishing piece of reasoning.

Dom Sebastian Moore, of Downside Abbey: "A piece of reasoning that is odd in the extreme. . . .

That was an excellent piece of reasoning from a 25-year-old winning his first national championship.

Consider the subtle moves in this piece of reasoning:People may not need the government's encouragement to have sex.

Therefore, following that fine piece of reasoning, post hoc, ergo propter hoc, it will continue to do so, with the redistributed population alone assuring its more equitable distribution.

Knowing this, the board's compensation committee will pre-emptively eliminate the worst abuses.A lot is riding on that piece of reasoning.

In a particularly troubling piece of reasoning, the decision suggested that the state would satisfy its constitutional duty if the educational opportunity provided students would qualify them for jobs as fast-food cooks or bike messengers.

Intuitions are non-inferential in that they are not the conclusion of some piece of reasoning.

There is a potential glitch in the above piece of reasoning.

At the local level, a particular piece of reasoning to justify a given result may be unavoidably non-deductive, yet the result may also be established by some other, purely deductive piece of reasoning.