Sentence examples for probable arguments from inspiring English sources

But to attempt to establish [UP] this way would be to try to establish probable arguments using probable arguments, which will eventually include [UP] itself.

Hence a natural theology consisting of merely probable arguments, such as Swinburne's, can still show full religious belief to be justified.

[UP] is clearly not intuitive, nor is it demonstrable, as Hume has already pointed out, so only probable arguments could establish it.

In the Prize Essay he contends that probable arguments for God's existence based upon beauty, order, and design are more eloquent and edifying but less certain and convincing than strict demonstrations.

Some read it as simply providing further support for Hume's extensive argument that moral properties are not discernible by demonstrative reason, leaving open whether ethical evaluations may be conclusions of cogent probable arguments.

This phase goes beyond simply surveying the contours of the historical landscape to explicitly engaging with an envisioned disciplinary community, which involves "the mobilizing of probable arguments within the frame of the narrative, and the writer's concern to convince by persuading" (Ricoeur 2004, 236).

One difficulty with this interpretation is that even a highly probable argument differs from a demonstration in that the former is vulnerable to probabilistic counter-arguments.

What we have here is nothing at all like an argument from population to sample or an argument from sample to population: rather, it is a form of probable argument entirely different from both deduction and induction.

For Hume's treatment of causation rules out the permissibility of Newton's appeal to "final causes" in the justification of the (inductive and probable) argument from design in the "General Scholium" of the Principia: "we know [the Deity] only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes" (for discussion, see Stein 2002).

In "Eclaircissement VI," Malebranche urged that the idea of extension does reveal the possible existence of the material world, and that Descartes has shown that we have a probable argument for its actual existence deriving from our natural propensity to believe that there are bodies.

Most people under 40 probably would agree police should never have the right to rummage through our entire lives without a particular purpose based on probable cause.Yet during arguments, Justice Roberts insinuated that police might reasonably suspect a person who carries two cellphones of being a drug dealer.