Sentence examples for principles of inference from inspiring English sources

From an instrumentalistic viewpoint, "the most important function of a theory is not to organize or assert statements that are true or false but to furnish material principles of inference that may be used in inferring one set of facts from another".

Schlick was prepared to bite the bullet and hold that laws were not statements at all but principles of inference.

As Mill's methods can only inform us about relations of causal relevance, if biological knowledge is not restricted to such relations, there must be other principles of inference in use.

If a version of the argument works, then it can be deployed using only the concept of God and some modal principles of inference, that is, principles concerning possibility and necessity.

Here is an intuitive sketch of the proof of the triviality of a naïve set theory using principles of inference from the logic R. Let p be an arbitrary proposition: Thus we show that any arbitrary proposition is derivable in this naïve set theory.

Among leading researchers, Bem (1972) perhaps comes closest to a simple self/other parity view, arguing on the basis of psychological research that our knowledge of the "internal states" of both self and other derives largely from the same types of behavioral evidence and employs the same principles of inference.

Berman's account of wrongful coercion thus apparently relies on a principle of inference that holds that if it is wrong to do A, then it is wrong to threaten to do A, and vice versa.

If Hume and Moore are right, no evidence that appeals solely to non-evaluative considerations will be sufficient (unless we presuppose some principle of inference that connects non-moral premises to moral conclusions).

Instead of construing theory relations in terms of the Nagel-Schaffner model, he identifies a key principle of inference operating in classical genetics and molecular genetics, the "difference making principle" (gene differences cause differences in phenotypes), which can be ascribed to genes in both classical and molecular genetics.

In Aspects of Reason, Grice begins by considering the suggestion that reasoning consists in "the entertainment (and often acceptance) in thought or in speech of a set of initial ideas (propositions), together with a sequence of ideas each of which is derivable by an acceptable principle of inference from its predecessors in the set" (2001, 5).

This idea is supported by the proof-theoretical approach described here, as shown in the formal proof φ2 in Section 3, where Newton's law of motion was not merely a statement; it was used as a principle of inference, in the form of a definition inference rule.