Sentences with phrase «between specious»
Not exact matches
Now let us return to Professor Sipfle's question: «What is the distinction between my immediate memory of the earlier portions of my specious present and my memory of my former present?»
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I can tell you as a religious studies scholar that your use of «religious» to differentiate between some idealized, sincere faith (a very Protestant idea, by the way) and hypocritical institutional religion and its trappings is pretty specious.
One striking affinity between all these philosophers, except Peirce, is the central role in their metaphysics played by the notion of «the specious present.»
Since durations have no specific temporal thickness, but vary with the particular duration of the perceiver's specious present (CN 59, 69), simultaneity can not have to do with the relations between events as they are extended temporally, but spatially.
Faced with a scientific controversy as complex as that now raging over cusum can lawyers, judges and juries be expected to decide between the scientific and the specious?
Cary Leibowitz's «(paintings and belt buckles)» show at Invisible - Exports this fall (closed October 13) toyed with the specious distinction between highbrow paintings and lowbrow collectibles.
Specious analogies between the Earth's climate system & biosphere, and simple on / off electromechanical devices, do not constitute such evidence.
STT loves Ralph Leutton's specious comparison between noise from turbines and waves lapping on a moonlit beach — a line that comes straight from the wind industry play book.
Of course, women wear trousers, too, though once that was considered improper for all sorts of reasons, reasons that turned out to be just as specious as any of the those that guard the current boundaries between and among genders.
While there is much spindoctoring of isolated and arbitrarily selected findings claiming here or there to discover benefits or «no difference» between child wellbeing outcomes in joint versus sole custody, these are specious, and overall, children do far better in more traditional arrangements.