Such rhetoric then was hardly less corrosive, or less supported by scholarly reasoning, than the crackpot vitriol now spewed by Beck and his ilk.
"In science, those viewpoints that are supported by robust reasoning and evidence are accorded greater weight, but the BBC does not always reflect this.
Several combinatorial procedures in formal digital design of logic controller are supported by formal reasoning in the monotone Gentzen calculus.
In this case, interpretive charity directs us not to look for true claims supported by sound reasoning, but for whimsical claims defended by bewildering, even madcap arguments.
This paper describes an approach that allows a high level of traceability to be achieved with model-driven engineering supported by automated reasoning.
Compared with other CAD technologies, the approaches presented in this paper feature a combination of user interaction and automation, a text-to-scene pipeline, and a scalable knowledge infrastructure supported by automated reasoning.
But this raises further complications because Hume can be read as implying that criticism of the design argument can be generated on strictly Newtonian methodological grounds: the authority of "experience"—to which Hume and Newton both appeal does not license an inference (supported by analogical reasoning) to a God-like designer of the universe.
However, a researcher's evaluation of a real world situation is more likely to be arguable in terms of whether it is true or false, whereas the researcher's choice of evaluation of the investigation itself is more likely to be arguable in terms of whether it is supported by valid reasoning.
"That particular function is to look at all the facts, and don't consider anyone is telling the truth, unless it's supported by objective reasoning".
Since Galileo, debates in science are supported by logical reasoning and reference to statements of fact and not by reference to "authorities".
