Sentence examples for unwarranted inference from inspiring English sources

This is an extreme example but it shows how inaccurate actions can arise from inaccurate reporting, anecdote, and unwarranted inference.

The fallacy occurs when one then draws the unwarranted inference that because one has explained an idea's origin, one has thereby explained away its truth.

The current use of behavioral modernity in cognitive archaeology is grounded in a series of arbitrary categories and unwarranted inferences.

Rather, the Board (NLRB) reached its finding of actual malice by supplementing the thin record with unwarranted inferences and misinterpretations of testimony".

"The large number of ballots with discernible impressions makes such an inference unwarranted, especially in a hotly contested election," the ruling said.

As emphasized in a joke attributed to American philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen (1880 1947), logic texts had to be divided in two parts: in the first part, on deductive logic, unwarranted forms of inference (deductive fallacies) are exposed; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are endorsed (see Meehl 1990, 110).

But this last inference is unwarranted, according to Stroll.

However, in the absence of supporting evidence we think that such inference is unwarranted.

The present study was cross-sectional and shares all the limitations of this study type; in particular, the inference of possible causality is unwarranted.

The present study was cross-sectional and shares all the limitations of this study type; in particular, inference of possible causality is unwarranted since it is not possible to determine whether the diet promotes well-being or whether those who 'feel better' choose to eat a healthy diet.

If such additional inferences could be ruled out as being unwarranted changes in the student's epistemic situation, then the student's belief about the period would not pseudo-overdetermine her belief about the length of the pendulum.