Scientists may accept or reject a theory based upon the evidence provided, but scientists tend to refrain from stating that they believe in a theory.
One may still want to reject a theory that passes this test if it is based on a problematical or absurd way of drawing the mind/body distinction.
But just a week earlier, the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, affirmed a 2017 Appellate Division decision that rejected a theory that every exposure to asbestos – no matter how small - is a substantial factor in asbestos-caused diseases like mesothelioma.
Values play a direct role when they provide direct motivation to accept or reject a theory; they play an indirect role when they play a role in evaluating the consequences of accepting or rejecting a claim, thus influencing what will count as sufficient evidence to accept or reject.
Although Study 5's natural-science student participants may have been driven by a more general desire to embrace an already accepted worldview or reject a theory antagonistic to it [42], the fact that they were able to do so, given the results of the previous four studies, suggests that they also view ET as a source of expansive meaning.
But it was "Death and the Compass" that actually transformed my life (even inspiring that rarest sort of tattoos — one I do not regret), particularly this sentence, in which the Holmes-like detective rejects a theory-of-the-crime proffered by the Lestrade-like police commissioner: "It's possible, but not interesting".
Rejecting a popular theory that Tut died of a blow to the neck at 19, Egyptian, Swiss and Italian experts have deduced that he did die at 19, after a 10-year reign, but that the cause was an injury to his left leg, which then turned gangrenous.
There was no official word yesterday on the cause of the explosions, which tore a 30 foot hole in a wall of the building, but firemen search ing the wreckage yesterday appeared to reject a previous theory that it was a gas leak.
Another set of objections to the Augustinian understanding of hell arises from the perspective of those who reject a retributive theory of punishment.
Peirce, for instance, does not reject a correspondence theory outright; rather, he complains that it provides merely a 'nominal' or 'transcendental' definition of truth (e.g Hartshorne et al., 1931 58, §5.553, §5.572), which is cut off from practical matters of experience, belief, and doubt (§5.416).
