Sentence examples for putative reasons from inspiring English sources

We provide a thorough discussion of putative reasons why trials thus far have failed and suggestions for the design of future clinical studies.

It will thus serve to determine what putative reasons for action are (good) practical reasons (in something like the way that truth determines what reasons for belief are good reasons).

Among putative reasons for this proposal, we find the suggestions that beauty and such qualities are phenomena which, like those of physics or chemistry, may be measured, explained, predicted, and subject to normative characterization.

The putative reasons presented for these society-crippling regulations-- fairness," "to give otheregulations-- fairness the gregulations-- fairness toan the individual"--are ascribed to the cartoon villains with the implication that they are commonly found out in the world.

Putative reasons may include the paucibaciliary nature of the disease, inhibitors in the pleural fluid, and sub-optimal mycobacterial nucleic-acid extraction efficiency.

Attitudes to five putative reasons for taking a personal genomics test were analysed for those respondents who had expressed at least some interest in taking such a test if it was free (70% overall, N = 2,814) (Table 3).

In another exchange, Cooper pressed Conway about the putative reason for the firing.

The putative reason the wangbas operate is to provide online access.

The 90-minute show (no intermission) is even better viewed, however, as a companion piece to the Globe's concurrent staging of "Troilus and Cressida," a Shakespeare play on the ravages of a combat, the Trojan War, whose putative reason for being — the "pearl" that is Helen — is granted but a single scene.

Deviant causal chains seem to occur when the chain of causal events from a putative reason to a belief veers outside the persons cognitive structure.

This line of argument is perfectly general, so any principle citing a putative reason in its antecedent which could never actually be a reason (and whose consequent can be false; principles with tautologous consequents will of course be trivially true on anybody's account) will turn out to be false.