Sentence examples for weaker criterion from inspiring English sources

Logical falsifiability is a much weaker criterion than practical falsifiability.

Davidson may also be overly demanding in requiring accurate translation between languages as opposed to some weaker criterion of comprehension (see Bar-On 1994; Henderson 1994).

However, this is difficult to assess here, as the pattern of covariance is very complex, with many gene pairs having high zero-order correlation and known existence of circuits in the causality networks, hence our use of the correlation variability matrix, described above, as a (weaker) criterion.

In S. cerevisiae, some three-fourths of proteins meet this weaker criterion but only a small minority the stronger one (Ghaemmaghami et al. 2003).

Allowing this weaker criterion was the only way to consider wild-type mice able to achieve the 80% 90% syntactic completion level that mutant mice successfully achieved through the stronger prototypical form of Phase IV.

Direct verifiability was (by Carnap, Hempel, and others) substituted through weaker criteria such as (at least indirect) testability (see Carnap 1936/37) or confirmability and disconfirmability (see Hempel 1935 19455; 1950a).

However, in clinical practice, doctors diagnose and treat TB based on weaker criteria such as the presence of acid fast bacilli, caseating granulomata, suggestive radiological findings, or even clinical suspicion.

Defining employment as having a positive income in a year is a weak criterion because some individuals with a positive income may only work for a small part of the year or may be part-time unemployed.

However, with regard to the relatively large number of free parameters in a rainfall-runoff model, a single measure of performance is a weak criterion to assess and declare (or refuse) modeling success against the background of omnipresent equifinality (Beven, [2001]).

It was hypothesised that the MASQ would show marginal to weak criterion validity in the present sample.

The criterion of 'requiring at least one more night of hospitalisation' may be considered by some to be a weak criterion.