Sentences with phrase «claims are meaningless»

* OLS's own margin of error shows lolwot's claims are meaningless.

In a 1984 paper, Benjamin Bloom reckoned that one - on - one tutorial instruction had an impact of two standard deviations on student achievement, but this claim is meaningless unless the sensitivity to instruction of the measure of achievement is specified.

Even if a pet store claims that their puppies come from «USDA - licensed breeders,» such a claim is meaningless: Every breeder who sells to a pet store is required to be licensed by the USDA, and most puppy mills have USDA licenses.

Not exact matches

The move is not surprising and confirms what we already know: the Kimberley Process is meaningless when used by retailers who claim their diamonds are «conflict free».

@Just Claims, No Truth — if you're just random particles, then «harm» is a meaningless concept.

But again, for Durkheim the resulting «anomie» was the inevitable result of reason seeing through the meaningless claims of faith.

The claim of knowing Christ is meaningless apart from obedience to his commands.

To claim that God in his transcendent being foreknows all future contingencies has the inevitable effect of rendering his objective relationships with the world meaningless.

So either prove that the Bible is not the whole Truth as it CLAIMS TO BE, or your arguments are meaningless.

One of my favorite atheist behaviors is to deny that there's any goal or purpose or meaning in life, and to challenge us to «be strong enough to put that archaic stuff behind you», and then they claim life isn't meaningless, though, b / c they can create their own meaning!

Claiming that [the Christian] god must exist due to «good» and «evil» being in balance for 10,000 years is as meaningless as me claiming Krishna must exist becuase the World's ying and yang have been in perfect balance for 13,700,000,00Claiming that [the Christian] god must exist due to «good» and «evil» being in balance for 10,000 years is as meaningless as me claiming Krishna must exist becuase the World's ying and yang have been in perfect balance for 13,700,000,00claiming Krishna must exist becuase the World's ying and yang have been in perfect balance for 13,700,000,000 years.

and if one claims life is meaningless, but then feels the need to fabricate meaning... which is broken: existence or us?

as Keller pointed out: if one claims to live in an existence that is — from inception — meaningless, then ALL of life is meaningless.

the point here: if so (as many of your referenced speakers do above), it is logically inconsistent to claim the fundamental nature of existence is meaningless (lacking any significance) yet our personal lives are significant.

if you claim the universe / existence is ultimately meaningless, that includes EVERY part of it.

For example, the assertion that words have their meanings only in their relations with other words is itself meaningless if there is no claim to correspond with actual discourse.

In particular, he continued his claim that the ideas of congruence and measurement as understood in the orthodox theories of relativity were not only wrong, but meaningless.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

There are skeptics who claim that experience is a meaningless jumble.

He was no trained philosopher but he would have regarded the notion of, for example, being a woman trapped in a man's body as meaningless, not simply because of the particular details of the claim but also because he would have considered the phrase being trapped in a body to be arrant nonsense.

Of course, the positive apriori metaphysical affirmation might be completely meaningless; one needs a metaphysical system to show that the apriori claim is at least conceivable.

If we discount appeals that had relevance only when considering the claim that Premise X is meaningless or the claim that Premise X is logically false (i.e., Griffin's appeal to the meaninglessness of «X is a powerless actuality» in the first case and to «the definition of «actual being» in the second case), Griffin's text provides nothing in the way of support for the assertion that the metaphysical principle upon which he is relying is correct.

Because the claim that the creativity in any one actual entity is the same as the creativity in some other actual entity is meaningless, and because, at the same time, creativity guarantees the particularity of each actual entity, it follows that each actual entity is its own act of existence (to use the Thomistic term), its own subjectivity, its own concrescence.

For too long folks like you have made claims that can not be verified and as such are meaningless..

Fact: you don't understand how carbon dating works «Furthermore you can claim 4.5 billion all day long but SCIENCE states that is a meaningless number unless you state what that number is in reference to» WRONG.

The positivist, according to this account, can avoid this conclusion only if he can consistently make good the claim that the term «God» is meaningless, which is a way of saying that God's purported existence is not a logical possibility in any sense.

Most comments stated that «low - gluten» labeling is meaningless for individuals who wish to avoid gluten, but other comments supported «low - gluten» claims to allow for differences in individual gluten tolerance or personal preference.

Everytime someone wants to criticize a player with great performance stats they claim «inconsistent» because it is vague and nearly meaningless.

In reply, the legends of the shot — Rose, Fonville and Fuchs, O'Brien, Long and Matson — have been able to do nothing but turn over in their great circles in the sky or rush to rule books claiming meaningless illegalities or, yes, stand out there helplessly attempting to match him.

saying that the keynesian conception is about spending what you earn is the opposite of what it stands for (its actually what you haplessly describe as the neoclassical position) beyond the even more meaningless claim that wenger adheres to it... keynes broke with the idea that the economy was simply a collection of perfectly informed individuals and firms responding rationally to price incentives generated by market forces and that the big variables that frame an economies performance — output, employment, price level, wages, etc — tend to move in cycles and are shaped by decisions and judgements made under hugely uncertain conditions that if left to markets generate bad outcomes..

With Arsenal's penchant for injuries, an already injury - ravaged back - line, three - quarter of our defence (Koscielny, Sagna and Clichy) involved with another «meaningless» friendly which claimed RvP and Vermaelen last season... I'm not very excited about it and I wont celebrate it until I know TV5 is back to ensure that Arsenal's season doesn't go up in flames due to some «meaningless» friendlies!

Which no one disputes, of course, but doesn't actually contradict the claim that it is a meaningless, narcissistic gesture.

Many claim there should not be an investigation, or that it's meaningless because, currently, we don't know of direct links between parties and events.

Just one thing; «Clearly, it is difficult to have a debate * about evidence * if people want to retreat to a claim that stats are meaningless anyway.»

Clearly, it is difficult to have a debate * about evidence * if people want to retreat to a claim that stats are meaningless anyway.

While, dismissing the President's claims that those who can not see the success of the economy are unpatriotic, Nana Addo said the NPP is not looking for catchy phrases or meaningless slogans; but rather it is offering solutions that will take the country out of what he called economic crisis.

in the May issue claims that biologists say the concept of race is biologically meaningless, presumably because «any large human population has about 85 percent as much genetic variation as the species as a whole.»

Grizzard's team wanted to replicate their earlier research and determine whether gamers» claims that their virtual actions are meaningless actually reflects desensitization processes.

These things are meaningless in terms of a relationship, but he claims they are deal breakers.

One can claim a self - designated, important - sounding title that is completely meaningless, such as Phineas T. Bluster, MDD, PhDS, President of the International Society for Bringing the Best in Education to Children.

Last year's results showed that her company produced somewhat higher scores on meaningless smile sheets, but since traditional smile sheets are NOT correlated with learning results, the report's claim can not be trusted.

Her claim that the gap has been closed at her school is meaningless when there are no white students attending.

To claim that Amazon has a «monopoly» then claim that its Kindle is merely «average» is meaningless.

Any stats that try to claim market share, or industry growth using Bowker's ISBN reporting for eBook numbers, are meaningless.

A significant minority confidently claimed they knew what the «standardized cost return index» was, and said «reciprocity fees» were an important consideration when choosing a mutual fund, even though both terms are meaningless.

The ignorance here are astounding Please explain your claim with links to the facts as your word are meaningless!

I look forward to seeing whether that becomes the reality it claims to be, or whether most decisions are meaningless as they have been in the past.

Thinking of Tillmans claim of «the meaningless of everything», and thinking of the returning moment in the paintings of Lo Presti where the gloved white hand opens up and lets go of whatever it was holding.

The first graph shows how meaningless this claim is.

Is he really just claiming that the anomaly trend in the graph is meaningless because each data point is indistinguishable from Is he really just claiming that the anomaly trend in the graph is meaningless because each data point is indistinguishable from is meaningless because each data point is indistinguishable from is indistinguishable from 0?