Sentence examples for Laudan from high-quality English sources.

• (Laudan 1990: 321)

• In particular, the list that Laudan produced is not a random sample of theories.

• Throughout its history the word has had a clearly defamatory meaning (Laudan 1983, 119; Dolby 1987, 204).

• The classical sceptic argument against science, repeated by Laudan (1984a), is that knowing the truth is a utopian task.

• In these circumstances, the court must reject the prosecution’s hypothesis even though it is the best of alternatives (Laudan 2007).

• According to Larry Laudan (1983, 121), it “has the untoward consequence of countenancing as ‘scientific’ every crank claim which makes ascertainably false assertions”.

• Sometimes epistemic values are regarded as a subset of cognitive values and identified with values such as empirical adequacy and internal consistency that directly bear on the veracity of a scientific theory (Laudan 2004).

• If the right standard is met—the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard has recently been called into question (Laudan 2011)—then punishers act permissibly, even if they unwittingly punish the innocent (see also Simons 2012: 67–69).

Use Laudan in a sentence.

• They argue that since scientists find ways of choosing between empirically equivalent rivals, philosophers ought not to make too much of merely in-principle possibilities that are irrelevant to scientific practice (see Laudan and Leplin 1991, 1993, and Kukla 1998).