A more likely explanation appeared to lie in the seemingly closed system of reasoning voters brought to the process.
This strikes me as a classic example of a philosophical belief, a moral position that is arrived at through a system of reasoning and intellectual coherence.
Our ways of thinking about what is right – whether it's the relations between the sexes, freedom of the individual or the proper role of the state – have been shaped by the Platonic means of inquiry, a system of reasoning that seeks to unearth bias and contradictions, rather than accept directives handed down on tablets of stone.
In addition to careful observation, then, scientific method requires a logic as a system of reasoning for properly arranging, but also inferring beyond, what is known by observation.
The system of reasoning is described and illustrated using data from a single participant with advanced uterine cancer and a fungating nodule in the groin.
To deal with the race's new challenges, Stanford has souped up its robot, called "Junior," with a new, more flexible system of reasoning, more capable of improvising and planning around unexpected contingencies.
A system of reasoning was adopted as the analytic strategy, within a theory-driven evaluation, to abstract general issues from the case study data to construct explanations of symptom control and dressing performance.
3) Dual-processing threshold model In recent years, it has become evident that decision-making theories which assume a single system of reasoning are not sufficient to explain human decision-making [ 8, 9, 26- 28].
Based on the dual-system architecture of reasoning (system 2) and affective decision-making (system 1), we challenged the previous theoretical account by indicating that the main source of compliance is impairment of the meta-reasoning system when rapid affective changes occur.
In HCI research there is a body of work concerned with the development of systems capable of reasoning about users' attention and how this might be most effectively guided for specific applications.
