Sentences with phrase «fallacious reasoning»

Peter Hartcher is an insightful commentator on political issues, but we are all prone to fallacious reasoning about probability, and this article about Australian views of the US election illustrates quite a few of them.

Such fallacious reasoning comes up so often in my encounters with believers that I conclude it must be a product of a brain unsatisfied with doubt; as nature abhors a vacuum, so, too, does the brain abhor no explanation.

I'm paid handsomely by the «consensus police» to distract you and your fellow «skeptics» from your important work of posting the same comments based on the same fallacious reasoning in thread after thread, day after day.

Bayesian statistics offers a technical tool for avoiding fallacious reasoning.

We can see evidence of patterns of fallacious reasoning when people are confronted with such a condition, particularly in a highly polarized and politicized context where people are strongly identified with positions even though they aren't well - informed about the underlying evidence.

Essentially you've documented your own fallacious reasoning.

This expectation from the lay public that scientists are either right or wrong is entirely unreasonable, and is in fact fallacious reasoning.

Since education clauses provide little textual substance, it is unsurprising that their analysis by courts is occasionally nothing more than a bald assertion obscured by fallacious reasoning.

If you are too stupid to understand the logical fallacy you are engaging in, then I won't bother trying to point out your fallacious reasoning skills any longer.

Specious but fallacious reasoning; employment of arguments which are intentionally deceptive.

As such, religious people are forced to instead use fallacious reasoning.

According to your fallacious reasoning, the fact that snowflakes exhibit a pattern means that there are little fairies carving them out with specific intent or that they are the process of pure randomness, and we know that neither is the case.

When an opinion is founded on hypocritical or fallacious reasoning or simply wrong facts, an opinion is wrong.

The fallacious reasoning is because temperature is rising at the moment, and CO2 is rising, therefore rising CO2 is causing temperature rise.

Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.

The shortest reply to this counterpoint is that it's fallacious reasoning.

The fallacious reasoning employed by the judge may be exposed in this way.