Sentence examples for speculative criteria from inspiring English sources
This ranking appears useful to us, but we were concerned that it incorporates many very speculative criteria.
Both Spain and Ireland have run balanced budgets, or even budget surpluses, in recent years, and both were well within the Maastricht criteria, but became speculative targets in the credit crisis anyway; Italy has one of the lowest budget deficits in the euro zone, and runs a primary surplus, meaning that its budget is in the black when debt service is discounted.
Why lemur taxonomists have not used the above-mentioned criteria to delimit species is only speculative, but one reason might have been that collecting high quality samples for DNA analyses from many individuals is anything but easy.
Second, the definition depends on the dispositional criterion ϕ, the verification of which remains speculative in many cases.
The performativity criterion threatens anything not meeting its requirements, such as speculative narratives, with de-legitimation and exclusion.
Inmates have alleged that the criteria for entering and exiting the SHU are murky -- including speculative and seemingly arbitrary evidence of gang affiliation, like tattoos and reading materials.
By reference to this testability criterion of empirical significance, Carnap and other logical empiricists rejected various doctrines of speculative metaphysics and of theology, not as being false but as making no significant assertions at all.
Still, since the IADPSG criteria were applied post hoc, these results have to be considered hypothesis driving and conclusions speculative.
Exclusion criteria consisted of a document pertaining to non-manual procedures, lack of sufficient tests or data, and anecdotal, speculative or editorial reports.
"It's purely speculative".
