The reason why it matters who sits on the bench, paradoxically, is that the law is only partially, or modestly underdetermined from the standpoint of existing legal norms of practice. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But you must forgive us mythicist sympathizers for looking askance at a field whose conclusions seem so glaringly underdetermined by the evidence. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)
He accurately laid out the reasons that it was the wrong battlefield and that the war would have undetermined consequences and be of underdetermined length at undeterminded costs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The issue is epistemologically underdetermined by its very nature, for Bayle's behavior was compatible with both atheistic dissimulation and sincere fideism. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Additionally, the alien-theory is underdetermined by the evidence, but just finds compatibility with it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Laudan usefully distinguishes a number of different dimensions along which claims of underdetermination vary in strength, and he goes on to insist that those who attribute dramatic significance to the thesis that our scientific theories are underdetermined by the evidence invariably defend only the weaker versions of that thesis, while they go on to draw dire consequences and shocking morals regarding the character and status of the scientific enterprise from much stronger versions. ❋ Stanford, Kyle (2009)
Stanford concedes that present theories are not transiently underdetermined by the theoretical alternatives we have actually developed and considered to date: we think that our own scientific theories are considerably better confirmed by the evidence than any rivals we have actually produced. ❋ Stanford, Kyle (2009)
It means you are starting from the premise that the text of the document has a circumscribed meaning, and that while this meaning is assuredly underdetermined with regard to many of the difficult issues courts have to answer, it is not simply up for grabs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But the total field is so underdetermined by its boundary conditions, experience, that there is much latitude of choice as to what statements to reevaluate in the light of any single contrary experience. ❋ Stanford, Kyle (2009)
First, because a synthetic a priori judgment is a priori, its meaning and truth are underdetermined by sensory impressions and it is also necessarily true. ❋ Hanna, Robert (2009)
Right now that means disagreeing with the only person who was RIGHT about the war being of undetermined length, undetermined cost, and underdetermined consequences. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In fact, as Quine and others have argued, all scientific theories are underdetermined by the data. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The origin of the Hebrew language and what, if anything, it says about Israelite origins is, as you know well, in extremely complex and extremely underdetermined problem. ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)
It is evident that many of our interpretations of behavior and action are substantially underdetermined by context and evidence; so it may be that much interpretation of meaning does not constitute a "fact of the matter." ❋ Daniel Little (2008)
That the content of morality is underdetermined by the knowledge on which it depends is made clear by Descartes 'final proposition, which instructs us to defer to the laws and customs of the land when it is not obvious how we ought to act. ❋ Rutherford, Donald (2008)
However, Spinoza says precious little about the process of civil formation itself in the TP, making such an interpretation deeply underdetermined, at best. ❋ Steinberg, Justin (2008)
A culture's moral compass is not an innate or logical determination, but an underdetermined product of historical contingency and willful choice. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Her sexuality, or his, is unmarked by public signs of approbation or disapprobation, so that authority figures rush in to provide the categories that shore up the disturbed stability, and to try to impress them upon underdetermined singles. ❋ Unknown (2006)
