| One advantage of this approach over the criteriological approach is that the inference is explicitly contrastive: the argument engages directly with alternative explanations of the data. |
| But, exaggerated to excess, especially on account of this reaction, the criteriological desire is at the same time likely to miss what the mélanges of the poet could have got right, although apparently confusing. |
| Broadly speaking, most arguments for miracle claims fall into one of four structural categories: deductive, criteriological, explanatory, or probabilistic. |
| Eidetic reduction, the more subjective stage of eidetic analysis, operates without undisciplined subjectivism only through its criteriological principle. |
| This criteriological or normative aspect is what distinguishes the sciences of mind from the sciences of nature, which are said to be descriptive rather than normative. |
| A defender of a criteriological argument might respond that so long as the bar is set high enough, antecedent improbability will be overwhelmed by the fact that the event does indeed meet the stipulated criteria. |
