Sentences with phrase «chain of reasoning»

Only after an assertion is demonstrated to be true can the «fact» be used to build a logical chain of reasoning that elevates a hypothesis to a theory.
Calling upon the judiciary can be a circular chain of reasoning.
Wow, just explain in plain English, without resort to legalistic rules and long chains of reasoning from premises established by Lord Blackstone?
And it's that tortured chain of reasoning [that] philosophers are trained to look at with a critical eye.
problem solving, classifying and categorizing information, working with abstract concepts to figure out the relationship of each to the other, handling long chains of reason to make local progressions, doing controlled experiments, questioning and wondering about natural events, performing complex mathematical calculations, working with geometric shapes
In both, individual beliefs are sustained not by a single chain of reasoning but by their integral connection with a whole complex of tightly interlocking beliefs.»
Our children might then mature into adults who can think for themselves and assess any argument, from the sound chains of reasoning underpinning good science, through the more dubious claims of our economists and politicians, to the wishful thinking of climate sceptics, creationists and the tabloid press.
In his slender twenty - seven - page doctoral thesis, written when he was twenty - one, Nash created a theory for games in which there was a possibility of mutual gain, inventing a concept that let one cut through the endless chain of reasoning, «I think that you think that I think...» His insight was that the game would be solved when every player independently chose his best response to the other players» best strategies.
The social effects that have been given as reasons to mitigate climate change — climate refugees, resource war, famine, plague, and so on — exist at the end of such chains of reasoning.
This is especially true at a time when current events are measured in «hours since Donald Trump last said something stupid,» when the #content torrent is so unending and unmanageable that it can lead to «popcorn brain,» a difficulty concentrating on extended chains of reasoning.
Evidence usually only speaks to theory after some tortured chain of reasoning to connect the two.
Suppose someone were thinking through the chain of reasoning in the following syllogism: -LSB-(P Q) & P] Q.
The chain of reasoning which is most supported by the scientific data we currently have available (check earth science stackexchange for more information) is:
Consider this chain of reasoning.
(I should note that «tolerance» and other variables of large scope and meaning are measured in this study, perforce, by the response to a single question in complex data sets, and one often feels one is being led through a chain of reasoning from data to the interaction of large concepts that may not bear up, but that is the inevitable consequence of extracting large concepts from large data sets.)
There are unproven links in the chain of reasoning of a study that claims that more powerful thunderstorms could blast a hole in the ozone layer.
But one crucial fact was greatly underplayed in the wide news coverage triggered by the new study: the chain of reasoning laid out by Anderson and his co-authors has a couple of unproven links.
Yet your chain of reasoning has imbedded in it the idea that the speculation proves itself by definition.
Her chain of reasoning is that i) flights cause CO2, ii) CO2 causes global warming, iii) which will cause runaway climate change, iv) which kills people — the WHO says so, v) these are mostly poor people in other countries.
It will probably trouble you less if you stop thinking about it as an attempt to «disprove» the anthropogenic global warming / climate change hypothesis, and an attempt to offer an exposition of a specific argument, and more of an attempt to show how we think chains of reasoning are constructed in moral and political environmental arguments.
If we wanted to understand what the chain of reasoning was, and to understand how a political argument for mitigation was founded (or not) on science, then it would be essential to assess the plausibility of each step.
This chain of reasoning can start out with facts we can be very sure about.
Because ultimately, at the end of this chain of reasoning is an argument that owes nothing whatsoever to science: George Bush tried to hide all of this from you.
It was a math doctorate and required a new theorem defined as a general proposition not self - evident, but proved by a chain of reasoning.
Based on this chain of reasoning, Senator Cruz concluded that satellite data falsify all climate models, that the planet is not warming, and that humans do not impact climate.
Court of Appeal decision: The court confirmed that a trier of fact is not required to explicitly resolve all conflicts in the evidence, make explicit findings one each constituent element leading to a conclusion, address every argument or lay bare every step in the chain of reasoning leading to a result.
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