But a lot of people are confused, with good reason, about whether they need long-term-care insurance.
The idea is that we can reason about whether and how to go about seeking further evidence only in relation to a decision problem; the subjective expected utility of making the decision on the basis of existing evidence is compared with the expected utility of seeking further evidence before making the decision.
This was a deeper conflict between values and reason, about whether we should base our decisions on what our gut says or on what the facts say.
Students of epidemiology should learn that the mere potential of a bias will not invalidate a study, but that in each case they should reason about whether the potential bias is likely to occur, how strong it is likely to be, and whether it can be removed by appropriate data analysis.
In the March 8 memorandum to Mr. Buy and Mr. Causey, Mr. Mintz noted that there were "sensitivities surrounding Enron's transacting with LJM" for three reasons: Concerns about whether the deals were properly arm's length, whether the benefits received by Enron were enough to offset the perception of self-interested dealings and whether the deals were in the company's best interest.
I find it important to be able to think, understand, and reason about things, whether it is in day to day life, or from in a book, etc. Wisdom and education means a great deal to me and I find joy in being able to learn new and interesting things every chance I get.
Most Nantucket residents are well educated and in a good position to make reasoned decisions about whether to embark on an ecological study that might affect them all.
Partly, for this reason, decisions about whether to breastfeed, how, why, and for how long, could be openly debated and provided a context in which contested ideas about mothers and babies, and the contradictory pressures that women experienced in their lives, might be expressed.
Hume's account of causality covers at least five related issues: : 1) how we acquire an idea of cause; 2) what we mean by 'cause;' 3) how we reason about causes; 4) whether causes are in the mind or in nature; 5) how we could infer the existence of causes.
