Timothy Cheek ( University of British Columbia ) argued in his review that " Chang and Halliday's book is not a history in the accepted sense of a reasoned historical analysis ," rather it " reads like an entertaining Chinese version of a TV soap opera.

Latter-day Saint apologists have reasoned that this line of argument commits the logical error of appeal to probability ; they also point out that it is unlikely that Smith had access to material which would have referred to the then-small settlement of Moroni.

Fully Informed Jury Association activists have sometimes handed out educational leaflets inside courthouses despite admonitions not to ; according to FIJA, many of them have escaped prosecution because " prosecutors have reasoned ( correctly ) that if they arrest fully informed jury leafleters, the leaflets will have to be given to the leafleter's own jury as evidence.

Nimoy reasoned that since The Wrath of Khan would be the final Star Trek film, having Spock " go out in a blaze of glory " seemed like a good way to resolve the character's fate.

Landry reasoned that the best counter was a defense that flowed to daylight and blotted it out.

Barely five minutes after it had begun the Ingermanland Hussars were in retreat, and heading towards the Causeway Heights: the Russian commander of the brigade had reasoned that such a small, unsquared line of British infantry could not hope to hold out a cavalry charge, therefore there must be a larger force behind them.

" I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

He then lays out a completely reasoned case that the murderer is in fact Dr. Sheppard, who has not only been Poirot's assistant, but the story's narrator.

The police reasoned that three days would not have allowed sufficient time for the Yugoslavs to have organised and carried out her murder.

We want to be careful not to hype the movie out of the universe ," he reasoned.

Jack respected Tony's wishes not to be dragged further into the day's events, but when setting out to apprehend a suspect on his own, Tony reasoned that it would be stupid to let his friend go back out alone after just saving his life and offered his help.

The Court was determined to simultaneously save capital punishment in the United States and impose some reasoned basis for carrying it out.

Eisenhower reasoned that this was no time for an officer with Middleton's combat experience to be getting out of the Army.

Burnside reasoned that White could hold out at least one more day, and further action would only cause more casualties and greater damage to the fort.

Trainer Fred Kersley ruled out running Northerly in the 2002 Melbourne Cup and reasoned that because he would have to carry 60 kilograms over 3, 200 metres, and the fact that he possibly might not have stayed the trip, it may have taken too great a toll.

He reasoned that a vacuum cleaner that could separate dust by cyclonic action and spin it out of the airstream would eliminate the need for both bag and filter.

While his interpretation of Islam was basically negative, it did manage in “ setting out a more reasoned approach to Islam … through using its own sources rather than those produced by the hyperactive imagination of some earlier Western Christian writers .” Although this alternative approach was not widely accepted or emulated by other Christian scholars of the Middle Ages, it did achieve some influence among a limited number of Church figures, including Roger Bacon.

McCord affected a neutral, reasoned tone and thus usually stayed out of Imus ' line of fire, compared to the antics of the other cast members.

The British handbook of printing technology, the Penrose Annual, Volume X, 1904 – 05, mentioned about him in an editorial note that, " Mr. Ray is evidently possessed of a mathematical quality of mind and he has reasoned out for himself the problems of half-tone work in a remarkably successful manner ..... ( His screen-adjusting machine ) enables the operator to do uniform work with the fullest graduation and detail in it and with the minimum amount of manipulative skill in the negative-making and etching.

" But, to my great disappointment, I soon found that people were not to be reasoned out of measures, that they never reasoned themselves into.

1914 ), Judge Smith wrote regarding judicial interpretations of the racial prerequisite in the early U. S. naturalization statute: " All of which foregoing discussion may seem wholly out of place in a reasoned legal opinion as to the construction of a statute, except as illustrating the Serbonian bog into which a court or judge will plunge that attempts to make the words ' white persons ' conform to any racial classification.

Controversially, manager Charlie Dressen opted to play only the first game at home, rather than the last two ; he reasoned that if the Dodgers won their only home game, they would need to win only one out of two on the road.

Specifically, after acknowledging the various popular theories in vogue at the time, of how atoms were reasoned to attach to each other, i. e. " hooked atoms ", " glued together by rest ", or " stuck together by conspiring motions ", Newton states that he would rather infer from their cohesion, that " particles attract one another by some force, which in immediate contact is exceedingly strong, at small distances performs the chemical operations, and reaches not far from the particles with any sensible effect.

On the other hand, if such reasoned conclusions are only built originally upon a foundation of sense perceptions, then, the argument being considered goes, our most logical conclusions can never be said to be certain because they are built upon the very same fallible perceptions they seek to better.

Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these issues by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on reasoned argument, rather than experiments ( experimental philosophy being an exception ).

Dermott then proceeded to a reasoned explanation of why a new Mason should not join a " Moderns " lodge, since their amended passwords would not be recognised by any of the other Grand Lodges which at that time existed.

Asimov reasoned that it must belong to another universe with other physical laws ; specifically, different nuclear forces would be necessary to allow a Pu-186 nucleus to hold itself together.

Staff members felt a more contemporary orientation used in other games would be better, but Davis reasoned that a standard orientation was nonsensical.

Some early experimenters reasoned that if a fire in a fireplace were connected by a U-shaped duct to the chimney, the hot gases ascending through the chimney would draw the fire's smoke and fumes first downwards through one leg of the U and then upwards through the other leg and the chimney.

On the other hand, the meaning that best fits the Analytics is one derived from the study of Geometry and this meaning is very close to what Aristotle calls έπιστήμη " episteme ", knowing the reasoned facts.

Consequently, class distinction pervaded cricket which was organised and administered by former and current amateurs, many of whom reasoned that professionals would not make good captains owing to their worries over safeguarding their contracts or concerns about affecting the livelihoods of other professionals.

In 1901 Charles Sanders Peirce discussed factors in the economy of research that govern the selection of a hypothesis for trial — ( 1 ) cheapness, ( 2 ) intrinsic value ( instinctive naturalness and reasoned likelihood ), and ( 3 ) relation ( caution, breadth, and incomplexity ) to other projects ( other hypotheses and inquiries ).

He reasoned that the mixture of clams and tomato sauce would make a good drink, and mashed clams to form a " nectar " that he mixed with other ingredients.

He made a case for comparative political analysis, comparing the political situation of a country to the health of an individual ; a disease, he reasoned, can only be diagnosed by comparing it to its instantiation in other people ( Thompson, 495 ).

The supreme intellect, he reasoned, could be none other than the Imam of the age.

He reasoned that these butterflies were unpalatable to birds and other insectivores, and were thus avoided by them.

By shunning other contests, he reasoned that he kept down the number of political opponents who might have challenged him for his otherwise " safe " congressional seat.

On the other side was the largely pro-Imperialist faction, which represented the military interests of Japan and was led by General Hideki Tōjō, who reasoned that the extremely rapid successes in recent campaigns in Southeast Asia should be continued into the rest of Asia and even Australia before the Allies could react, to further develop the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Skorecki reasoned that if Kohanim were indeed the descendants of only one man, they should have a common set of genetic markers and should perhaps preserve some family resemblance to each other.

Skinn reasoned that Marvel superhero weeklies had been effectively competing with each other in an already crowded market.

This effect on interstate commerce, the Court reasoned, may not be substantial from the actions of Filburn alone but through the cumulative actions of thousands of other farmers just like Filburn its effect would certainly become substantial.

Gjøa was much smaller than vessels used by other Arctic expeditions, but Amundsen intended to live off the limited resources of the land and sea through which he was to travel, and reasoned that the land could sustain only a tiny crew ( this had been the cause of the catastrophic failure of John Franklin's expedition fifty years previously ).

The Court reasoned that because school athletes routinely face mandatory physicals and other similar invasions of privacy, they have lower expectations of privacy than the average student.

Ships which appear to have mental ' instability ' ( though only compared with the very reasoned rationality of the other Culture Minds ) or act in ways that are otherwise considered eccentric or at odds with accepted standards of behavior are considered to be Eccentric.

The important element in Dr. Viuya's leadership is developing ties with universities and other leading institutions around the world, while supporting free expression, reasoned discourse and diversity in ideas.