If the regularities cited as evidence of logos-governed order are equally amenable to rival interpretations—as Sextus Empiricus documents in Adversus Mathematicos—then the inference from regularity to intelligible order remains epistemically unwarranted.
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epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
inference(Nyāya epistemology)
A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known
logos(Heraclitean cosmology)
The account or principle of the cosmos's self-regulation; the rational structure underlying the intelligent ordering of the universe