A religious or poetic worldview represents an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or

hunch regarding primal axiomatic realities, integrating various affective inclinations,

evaluative dispositions, normative derivations, implicit cognitive presuppositions and
contemplative self-transcendence.
Below is a Normative Justication Heuristic based on Evidentiary Standards proposed
as a conversation starter.
A metaphysical worldview, not necessarily inconsistent with religious and/or poetic
worldviews, represents a particularized reasonable suspicion based on specic and
articulable facts, taken together with rational inferences from those facts,depending
upon thetotality of circumstances, and can result from a combination of particular facts,
even if each is individually innocuous.
Worldviews are merely plausibilistic.
A moral approach should, for any given issue, be justied by the evidentiary equivalent of
a probable cause, which is to suggest a reasonable amount of suspicion, supported by
circumstances sufciently strong to justify aprudent and cautious person's belief that
certain facts areprobablytrue.
A political stance should be justied by substantial evidence, more than a mere scintilla.
It means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to
support a conclusion.
A legislative remedy should be justied by a preponderance of the evidence, also known
asbalance of probabilities.The standard is met if the proposition ismore likelyto be
true than not true.
A constitutional article should be justied by positions based on what are clear and
convincing proofs, meaning that the evidence must be highly and substantially more
probable to be true than not.
Any curtailment of constitutional protections should require evidence beyond a
reasonable doubt, which is to say a proof having been met if there is no plausible reason
to believe otherwise.
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