Assertion: doubt | /r/HasProperty | reasonable
Facets:
value: in 1983
type: TEMPORAL
value: in ethics
type: OTHER
value: in epistemology
type: OTHER
value: well
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: After describing previous philosophical accounts of doubt, I develop an account of doubt as emotional incoherence that provides a framework for a general account of when doubt is reasonable or unreasonable in philosophical, legal, and scientific contexts.
text: Those with particular political views may declare some doubt to be unreasonable, even if it is actually quite reasonable.
text: They only become effective if they are well justified.
text: You might not be able to prove it 100%, there could be minuscule chance that its false, but it has been proved beyond any doubt that would be called reasonable.
text: Conversely, if the jurors or judge have no doubt as to the defendant's guilt, or if their only doubts are unreasonable doubts, then the prosecutor has proven the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and the defendant should be pronounced guilty.
text: In philosophy, we can ask whether the doubts raised by Descartes, Hume and other skeptics, in ethics as well as epistemology, are reasonable.
text: But students initially do not have all this information available to them, so their doubt is reasonable.
text: Their doubts about Barry Marshall's views were reasonable in 1983, because there was little evidence then that bacteria cause ulcers and none that killing the bacteria could cure ulcers.
text: one which wavers and vacillates, then the charge is not proved beyond every reasonable doubt and the jury must find you not guilty because the doubt is reasonable.
text: The second way to evaluate a doubt is to determine whether the doubt is reasonable.
text: In this cooption, the declaration that the doubt is unreasonable is again accompanied by the rhetoric of doubt as “sin,” and of doubters as “deniers.
text: After describing previous philosophical accounts of doubt, I develop an account of doubt as emotional incoherence that provides a framework for a general account of when doubt is reasonable or unreasonable in philosophical, legal, and scientific contexts.
text: At this point, coherence with the relevant medical information required acceptance of the bacterial theory of ulcers, so doubt was unreasonable.