(n.) The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Persuasiveness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(2) The evidence for changes in function of the central nervous system in cases of chronic pain is persuasive.
(3) What emerges strongly is the expressed belief of many that Isis can be persuasive, liberating and empowering.
(4) The similarities in methods of intervention found in the work of investigators of very different theoretical persuasion raise the possibility that most treatment methods owe more to empirical clinical experience than to their presumed derivation from a theoretical model.
(5) The main therapies are i. suggestion, auto-suggestion, hynotism, assurance, persuasion, and ritualistic therapy; ii.
(6) Israel, as a non-EU member, will depend on its partner countries’ powers of persuasion.
(7) Co-operatives should not be afraid to champion radical causes, or engage with controversial issues, but this must not involve affronting customers, or turning our backs on good people of different political persuasions.
(8) Coleman, in his efforts to sustain the national team's momentum, will be particularly eager to keep Craig Bellamy in the lineup, although it was the persuasiveness of Speed that brought his return.
(9) Clegg went on: "Unless there's overwhelming evidence that this [campaign] is a really effective way of bolstering public confidence in the immigration system, and bearing down on illegal behaviour in the immigration system, I'm going to need a lot of persuasion this is something [we want to continue]."
(10) It may be true that the old idea, often persuasively advanced by the academic Stefan Collini , that the university is “a partly protected space in which the search for deeper and wider understanding takes precedence over all more immediate goals” cannot survive unscathed in a world where there is huge unmet demand for technically literate and numerate graduates to staff the knowledge economy.
(11) Localization of angiotensinogen messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) within the proximal tubule, together with demonstration of renin and converting enzyme mRNAs within the kidney, provide the most persuasive evidence for local, independent synthesis.
(12) There's a persuasive argument that politicians used R&R to justify policies they wanted to impose anyway.
(13) But the young – like the poor – seem more open to a yes persuasion.
(14) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
(15) So it is little surprise that a campaign, led by orators as persuasive as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, promising to address all these anxieties in one fell geostrategic swoop, should be gaining in popularity.
(16) Some commentators have persuasively suggested that Putin is tired of being Russia's leader.
(17) The 2008 election was a great day for those of the liberal persuasion.
(18) The finance minister, Mathias Cormann, said Bushby had made a “very persuasive argument that yet another inquiry might not be the best way forward”.
(19) Such an atrocity, had it been committed by any Arab or Iranian, or indeed a Muslim of any persuasion, would have brought down instant punishment, or even war.
(20) Then I stayed in a house where a modest set of Austen's novels stood almost out of reach on a high shelf, and I took down the last of her works, Persuasion - perhaps because it stood at the end of the row.