Sentence examples for reasoning and argument from inspiring English sources

Early prescriptivists thought that this had radical implications for moral reasoning and argument.

According to others, such as Oetke (1994 19966), Dignāga and some of his predecessors and contemporaries were striving to spell out a defeasible form of reasoning and argument.

In both cases one finds an attempt to identify general criteria for good reasoning and argument schemes that incorporate specific forms of reasoning.

According to some, such as Hayes (1980 19888 ch. 4.2), Dignāga was striving, not to work out a deductivist form of reasoning and argument, but rather to work out an inductivist form.

In this and other ways, informal logic's attempt to model reasoning reflects, and has important implications for, philosophical concerns about the nature of rationality, the nature of the mind and its processes, the standards of good reasoning, the value of logic and rhetoric, and the social, political and epistemological role of reasoning and argument.

Their reasoning and arguments distort widely accepted understandings about the nature and process of science, threatening the rigor upon which the scientific enterprise depends.

Another consideration about the value of the fallacies approach to teaching good reasoning is that it will tend to make students overly critical and lead them to see fallacies where there aren't any; hence, it is maintained we could better advance the instilling of critical thinking skills by teaching the positive criteria of good reasoning and arguments (Hitchcock, 1995).

The Delphi method could have two different uses: on the one hand, in the field of applied ethics, where it could be a good technique to support ethical decision-making models, not because of the number of opinions gathered, but because of the consistency of their reasoning and arguments.

Mahathir's defence of Malay rights focused both on the "definitive people" line of reasoning and the argument in favour of affirmative action, which the Reid Commission had chosen: "It is not... for reasons of Malay superiority that preferential treatment for Malays in scholarship awards was insisted upon..

Here Hammond has distilled the flaw in both his reasoning and his argument.

It covers flexible thinking, impulse control, social perspective, values, moral reasoning and solving arguments.