What's the difference between coagency and cogency?
Coagency
Definition:
(n.) Agency in common; joint agency or agent.
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Cogency
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.
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(1) The main objective is an evaluation of the underlying epistemological robustness of the field and the cogency of its claims to possess knowledge.
(2) Furthermore, the cogency of exclusion of parentage, the average power of exclusion and the probability of parentage is calculated using published mutation rates and gene frequencies of the four probes.
(3) Such articulate cogency and a splendid voice like Richard Burton."
(4) It surpassed its rivals in the vehemence and cogency of its opposition to the Iraq invasion.
(5) There is no clean divide between religiously rooted and other beliefs, and this is an area where asking questions will not reliably yield intelligible answers because – as case law cited in Tuesday's judgment puts it – within the sort of supernatural discourses involved "individuals cannot always be expected to express themselves with cogency or precision".
(6) The purpose of this chapter is to present the new routes of navigation in epilepsy research, the salient theories on mechanisms of epilepsies, and their cogency to cause (generation of seizures) and effects (epileptic cell damage).
(7) Employing factor analysis, three independent aspects determining the quality of expert opinion are revealed, namely the factors 'cogency of message', role-conception', and 'recipient-orientation'.
(8) When these interprofessional disagreements are coupled with a lack of political cogency, action is likely to be uncoordinated and transient.
(9) The party has no policies to speak of, Bloom admits, and the intrinsic lack of cogency within the party means they are unable to solve that problem.
(10) Review of ethical criteria for screening, particularly the availability of experimental therapies, increases the cogency and reinforces the acceptability of performing occupational tests for both homozygous and heterozygous AAT-deficient persons.
(11) Recent interdisciplinary investigations (epidemiology, statistics, sociology, psychology, psychiatry) as well as the changing approach of a large section of the population towards suicidal behaviour (self-determination and the responsibility of the individual, human dignity, breaking away from handed down moral judgements) show that the estimation held with cogency in many quarters with respect to suicide as being a reliable symptom of a disease, cannot be maintained.
(12) In Part I of this essay, I assess the fairness and cogency of three broad criticisms raised against 'principlism' as an approach: (1) that principlism, as an exercise in applied ethics, is insufficiently attentive to the dialectical relations between ethical theory and mortal practice; (2) that principlism fails to offer a systematic account of the principles of non-maleficence, beneficence, respect for autonomy, and justice; and (3) that principlism, as a version of moral pluralism, is fatally flawed by its theoretical agnosticism.
(13) This is a crucial point, a requirement for ethical cogency.
(14) The cogency of the problem was amplified by the identification in humans of asbestos-like neoplasms with a fiber other than asbestos (erionite) and by the production of such neoplasms in experimental animals with a variety of man-made inorganic fibers, often used as substitutes for asbestos.
(15) The opening words of this piece, though, don't come from someone who wants parents to think for themselves, but from someone whose living depends on scaring parents into thinking they know nothing – Gina Ford, author of The Contented Little Baby Book, whose methods were described by Nick Clegg in a rare outburst of cogency as being like "sticking babies in broom cupboards".
(16) Estimates vary as to the cogency of the Colombian presence, but one observer suggests there are as many as 60 Colombian drugs traffickers in Guinea-Bissau.
(17) Analyses examine the ability of beliefs to predict compliance and affirm the model's theoretical cogency and appropriateness for use with psychiatric outpatients.