Sentence examples for positive grounds from inspiring English sources

The existence of possible replies to a set of objections does not, in itself, provide positive grounds for endorsing a theory.

The reason for including "non-overridden" in the supposition is that it would not be sufficient for S to be entitled to believe something if S only had good enough grounds to render a proposition sufficiently likely to be true because S might also have counter evidence that overrides those positive grounds.

In "The Unreliability of the Logical Principles" of 1908, Brouwer formulates, in general terms, his criticism of PEM: although in the simple form of p ∨ ¬p, the principle will never lead to a contradiction, there are instances of it for which one has, constructively speaking, no positive grounds.

Thus, here as in many other philosophical questions, the analytic method, while not capable of arriving at a demonstrative result, is nevertheless capable of showing that all the positive grounds in favour of a certain theory are fallacious and that a less unnatural theory is capable of accounting for the facts.

The Nasdaq has been on positive ground for the last month.

"From our perspective, we've gained a lot of positive ground towards achieving our goals," the statement said.

The Dow shed 11.97 points, or 0.14percentto to 8,801.53, after sinking more than 2.9percentt earlier and then clawing briefly into positive ground.

So he believes that professional sports, which reach millions of children who then get the opportunity to try playing themselves, have a greater responsibility than the general entertainment industry to keep their product legitimate, positive, grounded in the game.

Although some of the maritime novels promote the need to act decisively ("command means self-command", as it is put in The Shadow-Line), in others uncertainty is the positive ground the novel discovers: a place where the world's multidimensional difficulties can, if just for a moment, be squared.

They proved that (1.4) has a positive ground-state solution.

Then the system (NLS) has a positive ground state.