Sentence examples for rational inferences from inspiring English sources

Rational inferences can be debated openly and widely.

The later Māturīdīyah, however, acknowledged the possibility of fresh problems for which there was no precedent in either the Qurʾān or Ḥadīth (accounts of sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad), and modified this rigid rule, allowing for rational inferences when necessary.

A federal official nominating such a person for inclusion on the list just needs "reasonable suspicion" of a danger – something defined as more than "mere guesses or hunches", based on articulable information or "rational inferences" from it, but far less than probable cause.

It concerns, moreover, the capacity to combine or process the contents of such attitudes in rational inferences: the capacity to treat the relevant contents as premises in practical reasoning (as emphasized by Anscombe 1957 and Davidson 1970).

While it is true that causal processes do warrant inferences of the sort Russell has in mind, it is not the case that all rational inferences are warranted by the existence ('postulation', in Russell's thinking) of causal lines.

Despite the many advantages of adopting a historically sensitive Bayesianism, a few difficulties with the programme are particularly salient when it is treated as an account intended to capture rational inferences in the history of science.

So if the Rev. Wright takes the Bible seriously, he must defend the ancient Israelites' genocide of competing tribes such as the Canaanites because it was heavenly directed while condemning U.S. imperialism because he knows, whether by divine communication or rational inference, that god did not grant the U.S. manifest destiny.

Features of the research designs argue against mere exposure, loss aversion, and rational inference as explanations for these findings.

These are only a sample of the results that have provided support for Bayesian Confirmation Theory as a theory of rational inference for science.

For this purpose, we introduce the notion of stratification for a set of defaults, and prove that stratified sets are exactly those that induce a rational inference relation.

In the framework of conditional knowledge bases and default extensions, it implies that any rational inference relation may be considered as the rational closure of a minimal knowledge base.