Reliable tradition, hence, is the report that one can trust.
In the end, Aristotle preferred the idea of the world's past-eternity because of an essentially cultural predilection for the abstract argumentation supporting it and, of course, because he lacked a reliable tradition supporting the contrary view.
While Saadya states that "the truth of reliable tradition" is "based on the knowledge of sense perception and the knowledge of reason" (Altmann, 37), there are serious grounds for suggesting, nonetheless, that for Saadya, it is tradition and revelation, and the presence of God in man's life that these entail, which are ultimately the first foundations for knowing and living.
(K 1: 87, 98; 2: 4, 6, 50; 3:23, 53) References to the divine order in this third sense clearly presuppose the prior reception of prophecy itself and whatever knowledge or instruction it provides, plus the transmission of such knowledge over time through reliable tradition from parent to child and teacher to student.
A reliable 16th-century tradition claimed that Piero was blind in his last years.
Few if any ancient text traditions preserve reliable evidence of authorial practice in these matters, so that the editor is concerned only with variants that affect the sense; in preparing his text for printing he will adopt modern conventions of presentation and punctuation and a normalized orthography.
In a country without a tradition of reliable opinion polls, the election's outcome is difficult to predict.
Both countries have a tradition of reliable registers and they have been successfully used for study purposes in the past [ 15- 19].
Hopefully Ask Pastor Paul will also provide reliable information about different religious traditions and help us to see the common humanity in practitioners of all faiths.
