The phrase "standard of reasoning" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the level or quality of reasoning that is expected or considered acceptable in a given situation. Example: In a court of law, the standard of reasoning is based on evidence and logical arguments, rather than emotions or personal beliefs.
AT present, said Mr. MacIntyre, public discourse simply goes its raucous way "without taking standards of reasoning seriously".
So a major aspect of the study of historiography has to do with defining the ideas of evidence, rigor, and standards of reasoning for historical inquiry.
This line of thought closely parallels, of course, Laudan's appeal to further "ampliative standards" of reasoning in response to holist underdetermination in Section 2, above.
Thus, even if certain theological claims seemed to fly in the face of the standards of reasoning defended by philosophers, the religious believer should not flinch.
Yet normative standards of reasoning sometimes do get mentioned, for example, consistency and the ability to derive conclusions from premises (Freedman 1981).
One already finds a significant analogue of today's approaches to informal reasoning in nineteenth century texts which aim to raise general standards of reasoning through public education in logic.
There is a degree of overlap between the two fields in the fact that both are concerned with identifying and evaluating the standards of reasoning that are used in various historical traditions.
Rather citizens have a moral duty of mutual respect and civic friendship not to justify political decisions on fundamental issues with partisan values or controversial standards of reasoning that could not be publicly redeemed.
Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them.
This semantics supports standard methods of reasoning about representational independence, adapted to shared-variable programs.
