Sentence examples for revision in the light of from inspiring English sources

Faith in God, or a conviction that free will exists, or that life has meaning are not subject to revision in the light of empirical evidence.

It challenged received notions of knowledge, meaning and truth, and exceeded even the extreme empiricism of logical positivism by arguing that logic and maths, like factual statements, are open to revision in the light of experience.

Rabbinic studies," he adds, "are even more directly affected, and it is safe to say that nothing written on the sectarian movements of the last three centuries of the Second Temple can escape thorough revision in the light of the evidence now available and still to be published".

Finally, his hysterical notion of Al Qaeda as a terrifying Mafia-like octopus requires revision in the light of such recent political analyses as Jason Burke's "Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror," which persuasively presents Al Qaeda as a vague rubric for disparate terror groups rather than a discrete entity.

My interpretations of experience are fallible and subject to revision in the light of action and future experience.

In fact, nothing in science is final, unrevisable, and absolute: putative facts as well as theories are subject to revision in the light of further evidence and theory.

The general thesis has stood the test of time, but I am making targeted revisions in the light of new documents that have surfaced since 1973.

Willets expects to see some revisions made in the light of his find.

Judgments sometimes yield to a convincing theory; and theories often undergo revision or rejection in the light of judgments that they fail to fit.

Lewis, like Reichenbach a probabilist at heart, insisted that the assessment and revision of probabilities in the light of experience requires that some propositions obtained from experience be certain, or as he put it, "if anything is probable, something must be certain".

▪ Establishment of revision/appeals mechanisms for challenging and revising decisions (in the light of additional evidence and values).