Sentence examples for prior argued from inspiring English sources

Prior argued that the fallacy of Diodorus' Master Argument lay in his assumption that whatever is, or is not, or will be, or will never be, has in the past been necessarily so – thus, in effect assuming that the future is deterministic.

Prior argues that for the most part, lay people are not experts as they are unskilled in medical fact gathering or diagnosis (the domain of the health professional); in other words, lay people can be wrong.

Whereas the West barely flinched when the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis drove many countries in the region into recession, Asia still cannot isolate itself from a U.S. downturn, Mr. Prior-Wandesforde argued.

Deckers opposed the application on three grounds, prior use (Deckers argued that the prior use shown by Luda was invalid as the mark they sought to register was not "an exact copy" of the mark they used), that Deckers had a more significant reputation in Australia and that Luda had filed the application in bad faith.

Editors made it clear they were implacably opposed to a statutory requirement of "prior notification", arguing it would have a chilling effect on press freedom.

Prior research argues that study selection is subject to researcher bias, and the time required to review and select relevant articles is a target for optimization.

Taking together, the present study with prior studies argues against persisting primary postural syndrome with age in dyslexia.

That prior data argues that other cell types outside the striatum are equally vulnerable to loss of torsinA function.

Prior studies have argued that females will be more susceptible to socio-emotive aspects of website design, when compared to males [3, 40].

Prior work has argued that producing representational gestures aids conceptualization (e.g., Kita, 2000) and learning (e.g., Goldin-Meadow, Cook, & Mitchell, 2009), and has shown that gesturing during explanations can reduce cognitive load (e.g., Goldin-Meadow, Nusbaum, Kelly, & Wagner, 2001).

This is an important finding as prior research has argued for 50 years that flexibility and low emphasis on work rules facilitate innovation (Hage & Aiken, 1967; Kaluzny et al., 1974), and low formalization permits openness, which encourages new ideas and behaviors (Knight, 1967; Pierce & Delbecq, 1977; Shepard, 1967).