Sentence examples for standards of reasoning from inspiring English sources

AT present, said Mr. MacIntyre, public discourse simply goes its raucous way "without taking standards of reasoning seriously".

Whether it's food supplies or job losses, the likes of Boris Johnson and Liam Fox have made careers out of subverting normal standards of reasoning, pitching an era of employment insecurity and voluntary food shortages as if it's some sort of badge of honour.

Yet normative standards of reasoning sometimes do get mentioned, for example, consistency and the ability to derive conclusions from premises (Freedman 1981).

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.

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.

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.

tried to countermand against: it essentially leads to an unclear standard, making it difficult for teachers and school officials to know when to apply a regular standard of reasoning over a heightened standard.

Probably this is because insisting on too high and specific a normative standard of reasoning might risk making a majority of health care subjects decisionally incapable; a reductio ad absurdum of any theory of decisional capacity that implied such a result.

As O'Neill remarks: "If the standards of practical reasoning are fundamental to all human reasoning, then any vindication of these standards is either circular (since it uses those very standards) or a failure (since it is not a vindication in terms of the standards that are said to be fundamental)" (O'Neill 1989, 29).

Disagreements about the relevant standards of practical reasoning generate different varieties of metaethical constructivism: Kantian, Humean, Aristotelian, and conventionalist (§§ 2 5).

Specifically, since it was not evident to mathematicians at the time whether constructions that required locating a cone in the plane met the exact and rigorous standards of geometrical reasoning, Descartes' treatment of the Pappus curves in this four-line case does not convincingly demonstrate their "geometric" status.