Sentences with phrase «based on a false premise»

But chances are that whatever you believe is limiting the growth of your business (or anything else in your life) is based on a false premise, not an immutable truth.

For a start, the millennial brand is based on a false premise — namely, that humanity is circling the drain.

The idea that central banks shouldn't surprise markets is based on a false premise, namely that market volatility should be avoided.

Warren Buffett has written that the distinction between «growth» and «value» is based on a false premise.

Your question is based on a false premise.

Martin, your belief is held in error because you're basing it on a false premise.

As modern knowledge advances and hitherto insoluble problems are solved, a good deal of religion will be seen to be based on false premises, to be inadequate for modern conceptions of the universe, or to be little more than a collection of superstitious taboos.

Anything based on a false premise can lead to anything.

However, an argument that is based on a false premise is not able to be used to draw any conclusion of value.

Perhaps more important, the entire opinion is based on a false premise (God did it).

Your inabilty to construct a valid logical premise is what started all of this, and just lashing out a few more poorly constructed ones based on false premises and insults doesn't prove anything.

In any case your question is based on a false premise, that politicians run for office in order to pull down modest politician salaries.

Heather Smith, the group's executive director, calls it a policy based on the false premise that welfare recipients use drugs more than other sectors of society.

Jeff Peneston, a 9th grade earth science teacher in Liverpool and a 2011 New York state teacher of the year, says Cuomo's call for tougher teacher evaluations is based on a false premise and bad logic.

It was a scare story based on a false premise and some badly flawed polls.»

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Jeff Peneston, a 9th grade earth science teacher in Liverpool and a New York state teacher of the year in 2011, says Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for tougher teacher evaluations is based on a false premise and bad logic.

But Republican Carl Paladino's three - minute «major announcement» to New Yorkers was a non-apology, a reiteration of the basics of his platform, and an attack based on a false premise.

The lack of thought underpinning Gove's White Paper (which was, as we now know, based on the false premise that the UK was plummeting down PISA league tables) is an example of what Neil Carmichael, chair of the Education Select Committee, describes as the «Acting first; thinking later» approach of the DfE towards education reform.

Florida's A-F Accountability / school grades are based on a false premise since school grades almost always reflect zip code status

Villar's statement, «The CEA has continued to push for an absolute ban despite the fact a majority of the CEA's own constituents believe measures of student learning should be included in their evaluations,» is based on a false premise.

How the U.S. government could launch a preemptive war based on false premises is the subject of the first, relatively short part of this book.

So the argument itself is based on a false premise.

(This section is actually based on a false premise... skip past the plots and code to the next «Update» for more information).

Rebalancing is a fad based on a false premise: that it is impossible to measure valuations in a meaningful manner.

The complaint that intact animals will suffer incessantly due to «their drive to reproduce, but will never be able to when controlled», is based on a false premise.

So all of this based on a false premise that certain breeds are inherently bad — a premise that has been repeatedly debunked by animal experts across the world.

It's not surprising that laws based on a false premise are doomed to fail from the start.

To summarize, the law is based on false premises, and misapplied to animals for which it has little to no bearing.

First off, in four years of tracking this card, I have never seen the bonus offer dip below 25,000 points, so the rep's argument is based on a false premise.

The argument for natural variability is based on a false premise, that the world's environment of today was the same as lets say the year 1535, with a small exception of 6 billion people and hundreds of millions of internal combustion engines constantly belching out fumes in the air we breathe.

More about bicycle backlash: Battle Of The Bikelanes: The Extended Version The Battle Of The Bike Lanes Is The Talk Of New York Motorists Versus Cyclists: A False War Based on a False Premise

If an issue based on sound science conclusions has irrefutable merit, it would not have the fatal appearance of being based on a false premise from its inception, a foregone conclusion of it as a settled science in need of action to solve it and adapt to it.

First you erroneously opine that my calculation of the impact of halting all human CO2 emissions by 2030 on the temperature in 2100 is based on a false premise.

The allegations are based on the false premise that ExxonMobil reached definitive conclusions about anthropogenic climate change before the world's experts and before the science itself had matured, and then withheld it from the broader scientific community.

Just the start of the potentially murderous cycle of bad policy decisions that are likely to be based on a false premise.

Strassel asserted that Healey targeted ALEC because it is «one of the most powerful forces in the country for free - market legislation,» an argument she based on the false premise that «ALEC doesn't now, and hasn't ever, taken a position on the climate.»

Paul Birch The whole of this unfortunately fallacious argument is based on a false premise: that we have LTE.

TomVonk says: August 6, 2010 at 4:08 am Paul Birch says: The whole of this unfortunately fallacious argument is based on a false premise: that we have LTE.

There now appears to be evidence that all our existing climate models and theories are based on a false premise.

However I believe your paper is based on a false premise: that individual countries see GHG reduction as a policy objective.

NCSEA opposes these changes, and believes that this attack is based on the false premise that renewable energy and energy efficiency hurts ratepayers.

Thanks for this, Brian — you point out succinctly the main problem with «objective» journalism — it's based on a false premise of «fairness» that gives credence and intellectual traction to ideas that have, whether through science or statistical research, been debunked.

As I've written previously, the administration continues to drive an ideological wedge between basic and applied research, based on the false premise that the private sector can pick up these technologies and move them to commercialization.

This whole analysis is based on the false premise that temperature is a function of CO2.

In part of a long essay economist Nouriel Roubini writes: [C] ryptocurrencies in general are based on a false premise.

This mentality of «if you don't break the law you have nothing to fear» is based on a false premise.

The narrative was based on a false premise.

Not exact matches

Over the short - term, unfortunately, there is no assurance that investors or analysts will quickly recognize that this market is trading on the basis of false premises about earnings and valuation (though my impression is that those who wake up based on reasoned argument and evidence will be better off than those who wake up based on investment losses).

The belief that manipulation is the be-all-and-end-all of the gold market is based on two false premises.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.