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Example sentences for "reasoning from"

  • In both instances, he guessed right--reasoning from analogy.

  • In reasoning from effect to cause the reverse method is employed.

  • In actual practice the two forms of reasoning from cause to effect and from effect to cause are frequently combined to make the arguments all the more convincing.

  • The main difficulty in reasoning from cause to effect is to make the relationship so clear and so close that one thing will be accepted by everybody as the undisputed cause of the alleged effect.

  • The distinction commonly drawn between Deduction and Induction is that Deduction is reasoning from general to particular, and Induction reasoning from particular to general.

  • Reasoning from feeling is said to be feminine logic.

  • Hence, in reasoning from effect to cause, we can only reason from a change or modification in matter, or in that what is passive, to the act of some active power.

  • He is always saying, "that if we give up this great principle of common sense, then there is no reasoning from effect to cause; and we cannot prove the existence of a God.

  • Edwards frequently says, that "if this great principle of common sense, that every effect must have a cause, be given up, then there will be no such thing as reasoning from effect to cause.

  • The process of reasoning from cause to effect is known as the argument from antecedent probability.

  • The process of reasoning from effect to cause is called argument from sign.

  • Argument from sign also includes the process of reasoning from effect to effect through a common cause.

  • Speculators, indeed, might talk about first principles, and raise a system by reasoning from them.

  • I shall be satisfied if the present lecture is regarded as a plea for the use of reasoning from analogy, and as an illustration of its value.

  • Cite a case, either from real life or from fiction, in which a fact was established by circumstantial evidence; analyze the evidence and show how it rests on reasoning from similarity.

  • Reasoning from circumstantial evidence differs from reasoning from analogy or generalization in that it rests on similarities reaching out in a number of separate directions, all of which, however, converge on the case in hand.

  • In practical affairs it is easy to find examples of reasoning from analogy, especially in arguments of policy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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