Sentences with phrase «of valid conclusions»

You're making decisions about what ought to be the answer; what's the better answer among a number of valid conclusions.

I suspect this is another example of looking at very complex issues (i.e. child obesity) by breaking them down into component pieces (e.g. the menu in the school cafeteria, or the amount of exercise conducted per day, or the local socio - economic conditions, or what phase of the moon it is) and trying to reach some sort of valid conclusion.

Not exact matches

Musk should look at the team Trump has put in charge of the country's climate - and - energy future and draw the obvious conclusions: Valid climate science is now officially under siege, and sustainable or renewable energy sources are about to lose out big - time to Big Oil.

The institutions will provide a first view whether this is sufficiently comprehensive to be a valid starting point for a successful conclusion of the review.

Even if Theo or Vic constructed an argument with a valid conclusion stemming from its premises and free of fallacies, it is still only logic.

If he is just trying to «act» as though there are no gods he is proceeding from a position of belief and the experiment can not come to any valid conclusions.

If, as many seem to think, neo-Darwinism serves as a valid «design - defeating hypothesis» at the level of human reason but is rescued from any ultimately improper conclusions only by the intervention of theology, then it seems that my expansive definition is fully vindicated.

Although many of McCabe's arguments and conclusions appear idiosyncratic today, for he was committed to a literalistic, moralistic, and perfectionistic evangelical theology, 2 his analysis of foreknowledge and contingency still raises valid issues.

Again, you may disagree with any of the premises, you may disagree that you are dumb, that you don't know what you are talking about, that God exists and loves everyone, and fine, even if the logic is perfect, the conclusion isn't valid for you, since you don't agree with the premises.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

Plain men and philosophers have sought for a valid concept of the good, have been perplexed by the search, and have arrived at many different conclusions.

DanW: All valid questions.If you remove God from your perception then you have to have another conclusion to the beginning of all things.

If this conclusion is valid, then the far more important corollary is that the divine life Hartshorne calls God is not half of what it is made out to be.

In relation to theological and social emphases on which conservative and liberal churches differ, research indicates long - run social trends toward (1) wider acceptance of the conclusions of valid empirical research, and (2) greater reluctance to accept the imperfections of existing social structures.

Moreover, he would be quick to acknowledge that the most frequent and fertile source of error in a metaphysics that follows his method would be the inevitable human limitations upon the metaphysician's powers to abstract from his experiences with sufficient generality for his conclusions to be universally valid.

The three conclusions of the Limits to Growth referred to above are still valid and only needed strengthening (p. xv).

[2] The individual components of a circular argument will sometimes be logically valid because if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true, and will not lack relevance...»

The question thus arises as to whether any of their conclusions are valid with respect to the analysis of more ordinary kinds of religious discourse.

The conclusion of the Court is that plaintiff's predecessor originally acquired a valid trade - mark in the word «Tabasco» as applied to pepper sauce, and that, by no action or inaction during the subsequent years, has plaintiff lost the resultant right to its exclusive use.

Being a subjective statistic it is hard to get many valid conclusions from the data provided as the definition of a clear cut chance is up for interpretation.

They also accord with the conclusions of previous expert reports that aggressively targeting alcohol harms is a valid and necessary public health strategy.»

Most of its conclusions remain valid.

In this study, suicidal ideation was used as the indicator of suicide risk because too few patients reported a history of suicide plan or had made a suicide attempt for statistically valid conclusions to be made.

Sensitive and valid screening methods should also be developed to identify the patients who may be at risk for verbal mistreatment and identify patients that are currently experiencing some form of verbal mistreatment,» as explained in the conclusion.

Conclusions: The LASSI - L is a reliable and valid test for the diagnosis of aMCI and mild AD.

Conclusions The evidence supports a valid association of a limited number of dietary factors and dietary patterns with CHD.

From a scientific standpoint, three conclusions are valid about the achievement results in reading from the year 3 impact evaluation of the OSP:

Taking the findings forward While the scale of this project was very small, with teachers from five schools being surveyed, informal conversations with a range of educators seems to indicate that the conclusions of the study are valid.

While the scale of this project was very small, with teachers from five schools being surveyed, informal conversations with a range of educators seems to indicate that the conclusions of the study are valid.

Gain the practical techniques to reach valid and reliable conclusions about learning progress of students which will inform your teaching.

First of all, 44 observations is a very small sample, so drawing any strong, statistically valid conclusions is at best difficult, at worst misleading.

Or was IEA's conclusion — that the performance of American 4th graders in an international context was first class — more valid?

It is important to note, however, that even if the conclusions from these studies are right, they provide evidence about whether value - added measures are valid on the average across large numbers of teachers.

To affirm NASSP's support for a global community of educators, offer recommendations for improving the relevance and significance of international comparisons, and promote appropriate comparative analysis of the data from international assessments to aid in reaching valid conclusions regarding the performance of public schools in the United States of America.

Therefore, we can not make valid conclusions on potential positive or negative impacts of this CSR model or its parts.

All of the methods described implicitly assume you have a lot of free time collect enough data from which to draw valid conclusions.

And I'm wondering if there is a way of looking at an incident of theft and being able to draw conclusions that are scientifically valid about whether or not that could have been prevented by conducting a particular pre-employment screen or check.

Once I came to the conclusion that there was no valid reason for most yearly pet vaccines — and there was a possibility that vaccines could trigger the development of serious diseases — I felt I could no longer work at a conventional veterinary clinic.

It is also the conclusion of the Foundation Board and its Council of Scientific Advisors, based on its review of all relevant materials and discussion, that the current English Springer Spaniel Cord1 PRA test is a valid and important tool for breeders.

But the point here is not to replicate this for the sake of it, but to discover whether the conclusions drawn from their analysis were valid by testing their procedure in test situations where one knows the answer already.

Thus, if a scientist understands the data sources and what constitutes a valid method, the new analysis should replicate the conclusions of the previous analysis.

Underlying the scientific method is the assumption that there is an objective reality that will point to the same conclusion for any valid method of inquiry.

However, in the paper the authors actually stated that «our conclusion about the dominance of the CRF over climate variability is valid only on multimillion - year time scales».

But from such broad open - minded study of all data, valid conclusions can be drawn.

If The New York Times thinks that it has valid research that actually supports, credibly, the conclusion that more (valid, informed, accurate, well - communicated, etc.) information actually doesn't and wouldn't budge the public's understanding of global warming, or the public's concern for global warming, I'd ask that such research be posted or linked, so we can all review it.

Of course, even if your various studies did support each other it would not mean that their conclusions were valid, if the statistical inference methods used in all of them were seriously flawed, as I have reason to believOf course, even if your various studies did support each other it would not mean that their conclusions were valid, if the statistical inference methods used in all of them were seriously flawed, as I have reason to believof them were seriously flawed, as I have reason to believe.

So while their conclusions may be valid: yes there is no evidence of a discrepancy, given their uncertainties, and yes there is no «statistically significant» decline in OHC rates of change, but the uncertainties are so large that neither dataset is useful to know what is really going on, and that is the key point.

«There are no valid surveys of 97 % of alleged climate scientists endorsing IPCC conclusions» and «the claims reflect partisan activist bias in the framing of the clearly distorted 97 % propaganda media talking point» and «only the uninformed and partisan inclined would attempt to invoke debunked 97 % consensus claims».

But you also said, «But let me try and make it even clearer: consensus by a vote of qualified scientists is not a valid basis for arriving at a logical, scientific conclusions about AGW — that's true» You have clearly contradicted yourself.

«But that doesn't mean you give up on the science, and that you can't draw valid conclusions about the nature of Earth's temperature change,» he asserted.