Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.

Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.

But if the administration should find it does not need the $28 million for a grant-in-aid program, a not unlikely conclusion, it could very well seek a way to use the money for other purposes.

A " no decision " bout occurred when, by law or by pre-arrangement of the fighters, if both boxers were still standing at the fight's conclusion and there was no knockout, no official decision was rendered and neither boxer was declared the winner.

Thus, the goal of a conditional proof is to demonstrate that if the CPA were true, then the desired conclusion necessarily follows.

One way around this conclusion would be if time itself was altered — if clocks at different points had different rates.

However, if one finds one single black swan, deductive logic admits the conclusion that the statement that all swans are white is false.

Singer wrote: " My conclusion there is, and here I back Shklovsky, that if the satellite is indeed spiraling inward as deduced from astronomical observation, then there is little alternative to the hypothesis that it is hollow and therefore martian made.

The argument is logically valid, meaning that if the premises are true, then the conclusion is guaranteed to also be true.

A deductive system is called complete if every logically valid formula is the conclusion of some formal deduction, and the completeness theorem for a particular deductive system is the theorem that it is complete in this sense.

Together with soundness ( whose verification is easy ), this theorem implies that a formula is logically valid if and only if it is the conclusion of a formal deduction.

At the conclusion, Visarjan ( closing ) prayer is recited, which means knowingly or unknowingly if any mistakes are committed during the prayer please forgive.

Underlying the basis of the “ containment ” of Germany was the so-called “ X documents ” provided by Carl Friedrich Goerdeler over the course of the winter of 1938 – 39 which suggested that the German economy, under the strain of massive military spending was on the verge of collapse, and which led British policy-makers to the conclusion that if Hitler could be deterred from war and if his regime was “ contained ” long enough, then the German economy would collapse, and with it, presumably the Nazi regime.

At the conclusion of Strong Poison, Inspector Parker asks " What would one naturally do if one found one's water-bottle empty?

This may require the jury to decide between conflicting medical evidence which they are not necessarily equipped to do, but the law goes further and allows them to disagree with the experts if there are facts or surrounding circumstances which, in the opinion of the court, justify the jury in coming to that conclusion.

I reached the conclusion that if I could record the movements of the diaphragm properly, I could cause such records to reproduce the original movements imparted to the diaphragm by the voice, and thus succeed in recording and reproducing the human voice.

However, analysis of thousands of high-quality games ( most of them computer-generated ) appears to lead to a reliable conclusion ( pending actual proof if true ) that, on the standard 8-by-8 board, perfect play on both sides results in a draw.

Noam Chomsky roundly criticized sociobiology and many of its proponents, saying " Even if we grant every factual conclusion for which some shred of evidence is claimed, nothing of interest follows, except on assumptions that reflect ideological fanaticism, not science.

A state's consent may be invalidated if there was an erroneous understanding of a fact or situation at the time of conclusion, which formed the " essential basis " of the state's consent.

Philo argues that even if the universe is indeed designed, it is unreasonable to justify the conclusion that the designer must be an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent God-the God of classical theism.

Newcastle, by contrast, sought peace but only if the war in Germany could be brought to an honourable and satisfactory conclusion ( rather than Britain suddenly bailing out of it as Bute proposed ).

" He analyzed the issue using newer data in 1993, and again reached the same conclusion.

The conclusion of the countdown was altered in 2008 to feature the new presentation style, rather than a data stream moving in towards the camera.

A 2006 reanalysis of the data questioned this hypothesis, as it claimed to have found a data collection bias, which led to an erroneous conclusion.

Alexander Stokes ( another expert in helical diffraction theory ) and Wilkins ( both at King's College ) had reached the conclusion that X-ray diffraction data for DNA indicated that the molecule had a helical structure — but Franklin vehemently disputed this conclusion.

We were very skeptical of the first published reports, and ... data were not sufficient to support this startling conclusion.

However, economists cannot be confident of this conclusion because data on illegal insider trading is not available ; the nature of the activity renders it impossible to gather data.

He investigated the available data regarding rainfall and climate in different regions of the globe, and came to the conclusion that the rainfall is regulated by the humidity of the air on the one hand, and mixing of different air currents in the higher atmosphere on the other.

Additionally, concerns over the sample populations used were later addressed by the Kinsey Institute, and the conclusion was that none of Kinsey's original estimates were significantly affected by these data sources.

Determinative mineralogy is the actual scientific process of identifying minerals, through data gathering and conclusion.

# Creating a conclusion with data gathered in the experiment

He was forced, by his extreme empiricism, to posit the existence of God in order to explain our experience of coherence, even though on an empirical understanding of raw sense data, such a conclusion did not follow.

In his two part work The Age of Reason, the American revolutionary Thomas Paine wrote, " The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing ; it is founded on nothing ; it rests on no principles ; it proceeds by no authorities ; it has no data ; it can demonstrate nothing ; and it admits of no conclusion.

Scientists working for Kinsey reported data which led to the conclusion that people are capable of sexual stimulation from birth.

The very limited animal and human data do not allow a conclusion as to the safety of valerian during pregnancy.

A recent alternative explanation is that the geometry of space is not homogeneous ( due to clusters of galaxies ) and that when the data are reinterpreted to take this into account, the expansion is not speeding up after all, however this conclusion is disputed.

) re-analysed the same data from the 2001 meta-analysis and concluded that the placebo effects for objective symptom measures are comparable to placebo effects for subjective ones and that the placebo effect can exceed the effect of the active treatment by 20 % for disorders amenable to the placebo effect, a conclusion which Hróbjartsson & Gøtzsche described as " powerful spin ".

The empirical method is generally taken to mean the approach of using a collection of data to base a theory or derive a conclusion in science.

Videotaped control data supporting the authors ' conclusion that cottontop tamarin monkeys displayed pattern-learning behavior similar to human infants reportedly was unable to be located after a three-year investigation.

# Interpretation of data and formulation of conclusion

This conclusion is further supported by data from the effects of neuro-active chemicals ( such as those affecting neurotransmitters ) on mental functions, but also from research on Neurostimulation ( direct electrical stimulation of the brain, including Transcranial magnetic stimulation ).

Douglas Rushkoff argues that focus groups are often useless, and frequently cause more trouble than they are intended to solve, with focus groups often aiming to please rather than offering their own opinions or evaluations, and with data often cherry picked to support a foregone conclusion.