Sentences with phrase «make valid interpretations»

Accordingly, if VAM estimates are highly correlated to biasing factors, then it becomes impossible to make valid interpretations about the causes of student achievement gains or losses as intended.

Not exact matches

This means that, whilst all interpretation is provisional (which I think might be the main point you are making) not all are equally valid.

In interpreting his biblical texts Bultmann made use of these ideas with a vigor which promises that his basic principles of interpretation may survive, still seem valid, when the misty vocabulary of Heidegger's early philosophy no longer seems compelling.

So, this means that there is ONE valid interpretation to any text, unless the author purposely designed the text in such a way as to make people ponder various interpretations (which would be a certain kind of genre, but not most texts).

2) she makes a very valid point, and she is absolutely correct about the bible having many different interpretations.

While the Old Fashioned, a Martini, and a Manhattan are all great possibilities on such an evening, they all also involve endless questions and debates regarding the right way to make them and innumerable, mostly valid, interpretations.

Contrasting these two this way makes it sound as if scientific collection of facts from «global - scale monitoring» can somehow never lead to «doom scenarios» and that, if they do, the monitoring or its interpretation must be suspect; not really a valid assumption afaics.

It seems most of the erroneous data the reviewer refers to initially are simply valid disagreements on interpretation of data, and not making stuff up.

Stare decisis's most prominent cost is binding judges to interpretations of law that they find unpersuasive, raising the fundamental question of when and why such a restraint on judges» decision - making autonomy is justified.30 In an ideal world, stare decisis would insulate valid principles of law from arbitrary and unprincipled revision without entrenching «bad» precedent against further review.31 In reality, stare decisis hinders defection from both appealing and unappealing precedent.