Sentence examples for sample arguments from inspiring English sources

For example, in the econometrics literature, choice among estimators that rely on the selection on observables assumption is normally warranted on small sample arguments [6].

However, it is quite clear that no rational, reflective, etc. non-theist will accept the pair of premises in the sample argument.

The sample argument consists, in effect, of two premises: one which says that God exists in at least one possible world; and one which says that God exists in all possible worlds if God exists in any.

In our sample argument, the claim, that I conceive of an existent being than which no greater being can be conceived, admits of the two kinds of readings just distinguished.

Sample argument: whether or not dust bunnies should be included in zoos.

Sampling arguments have no value without guidelines for counting similarities, or better, a theory of relevance.

With regard to self-organization, a relevant question is how norms and rules might be stimulated that explicitly emphasize the common goal of collectively sampling arguments and improving ideas in order to develop community knowledge.

The simplest version of the sampling argument is due to Mill (1843/1930).

The first treats analogical reasoning as generalization from a single case; the second treats it as a kind of sampling argument.

This is like a sampling argument: no observed goods have been good enough to justify certain evils, so probably no evil at all is.

The version of the argument from evil which has received the most attention is that of William Rowe (1979, 1988 , 1991 1995, 1996, 2006; see also Trakakis 2007), who offered the sampling argument from evil.