Sentence examples for upon insufficient from inspiring English sources
As such it attracts the charge that belief upon insufficient evidence is always irrational.
He also criticised the UN inspectors' report, saying it was "distorted" and "one-sided", and based upon "insufficient" information.
Clifford presented evidentialism as a rule of morality: "it is wrong always, everywhere, and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence" (Clifford 1879, 186).
His position is summed up in the famous quotation: "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence" (Clifford 1879: 1879.
The theories were assigned the label of not being true, suggesting that evolution and the big bang theory are more of a belief than a theory to be rejected based upon insufficient of disconfirming evidence.
Mackie's contention that fideism is intellectually irresponsible was anticipated in the nineteenth century by W.K. Clifford, who famously declared that "[i]t is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence" (346).
More than 2.5 million seniors are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged, typically because the care they receive upon return is insufficient.
The absence of hyper-metabolic nodule activity upon examination is insufficient to conclude benignity.
Consequently, we believe it more likely that Visc-2 is functional but that the effect of its deletion upon fitness is insufficient to manifest itself in the assays screened.
Notably, previous studies demonstrated that upon deletion or insufficient permeability of VDAC-1, the TOM complex (translocase of the outer membrane) partially substitutes for the VDAC channel in the transport of external solutes, such as the dinucleotide NADH, through the outer membrane [39].
A league spokeswoman, Bernadette Mansur, said of Propper's proposals: "A fan's look at the economics of one team provides a totally insufficient basis upon which to draw leaguewide conclusions.
