Sentences with phrase «false premises as»

This would free the scientists to focus on the uncertainties surrounding the science instead of wasting precious time defending themselves on false premises as the Democrats point to global institutions endorsing the IPCC position.

Not exact matches

Yet if Feyerabend is correct, and an unpopular new theory can ignore or reject experimental data long enough to get its footing, how much longer can an old and creaky theory, buttressed by the reputations and influence and political power of hundreds of established practitioners, continue to hang in the air even when the results upon which it is premised are exposed as false?

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.

For example, maybe higher educated people have more personal security and as such feel less need for God... etc.... Either way your premise is false and illogical.

When I provide a postulate, it stands as fact unless one of the supporting premises is shown to be false — much like the way science works.

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.

Griffin concludes: «Accordingly, Premise X should be rejected not simply as false, but as meaningless» (GPE 267).

She talked to many excellent sources for this piece, such as Bertrand Weber, Karen Le Billon and Chef Ann Cooper — but clearly she went into the exercise laboring under a false premise: she seems to think that our «nutritionism» culture is what's producing subpar school meals and that if we'd just apply more common sense to our diet, we'd suddenly see France's salmon lasagne on American school trays.

The show attracted nearly 1,500 messages on its Web site despite its flatly false premise, as Vargas still has an impressive job, even if it's anchoring «20/20» instead of the ABC evening news.

I'm voting to close this question as off - topic because the premise is false.

As I said, this is a false premise.

People who are good enough for the job will be accused of getting it on false premises and people who aren't will be exposed as not being up to the job.»

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Samuel L. Jackson Dud as Racist Neighbor Due on DVD This cinematic fiasco rings false from beginning to end, from its patently absurd premise clear through to its unintentionally funny resolution.

It's not hard to see the appeal of a movie like this — again, the premise is a slam - dunk as far as high - concept comedies go — but the execution is, at best, lacking, and at worst, baffling (why, for example, does this movie have more false endings than

After the false start, the real premise begins with Amanda's teenage daughter Max (Taissa Farmiga) agreeing to attend a screening of her late mother's movie as a special guest.

Changes in response If no management plan is in place at a later date and a false alarm reaches the FRS as an Unwanted Fire Signal, then the FRS can instigate the changes in the response level given in the plan, but they will still work with the premises to improve the system.

The activation of detectors without apparent damage or entry to the premises and line faults are considered as a false alarm unless proved otherwise.

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.

In Mike Kelley: Educational Complex, John Miller approaches educational complex through corresponding lines of enquiry, considering the representation of Kelley's schools (and his childhood home) as architectural models; popular fantasies associated with false memory syndrome; and the liberal democratic premises underpinning education.

Your third false premise is that current measures are meant as a «solution» to the problem.

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.

An excellent example of time revealing failed false premises is the failure of Republicans such as Rove and DeLay to create a permanent Republican majority.

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.

Also, your premise has the problem as antecedent to a patently false claim, as the substantial argument on my side against the validity of your argument is not even separated from your claim of its nonexistence by two inches on the page.

Surprised because if the premise is a false one, as the letter indicates, then the argument you put forward falls down.

5) False premises are routinely thrown around as facts, i.e. that skeptics engage in death threats (although this is little more than an allegation by one climate scientist under investigation at the time) with no legal action taken to support it or any publication of emails etc..

Jelbring's «proof» of a temperature gradient is therefore invalid, as it depends on a premise which (depending on interpretation) is either false or inapplicable to the circumstances (because something true in the long run is being invalidly applied in the short run).

I see a lot of people talking about heat and temperature as if they're the same thing here, then basing their arguments on that false premise.

In its argument for the existence of CAGW, Working Group 1 employs the negated law as a false premise thusly arriving at the conclusion that CAGW is proved when it is not proved on account of the false premise.

It follows that any laws and regulations passed as a result of such false predictions were passed under false premises and have to be nullified.

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

Through use of a false proposition as the premise to an argument one can appear to prove an arbitrarily chosen false conclusion.

As the premise is false, this argument for CAGW is unproved.

Thus, when the uniform prior is used as a premise to an argument for CAGW, this premise is false, by the law of non-contradiction.

That sort of agreement is not pushed in a democracy, it is pushed in a fake news misinformation environment where critics are said to deny something they don't deny, while being portrayed as corrupted when they are not, concerning a situation portrayed to be a problem under false premises, where zero rebuttal is permitted by those pushing this so - called agreement.

It is up to those who posit potentially catastrophic warming from AGW (= CAGW), as IPCC does, to demonstrate that this premise is correct — NOT up to those who are rationally skeptical of this premise to demonstrate that it is false.

But if I may make a vaguely political statement: I am skeptical of political ideas, such as Will's, that appear to be based on premises that are patently false.

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.

The premise that the deniers have shot themselves in the foot — as much as I wish to agree, is a false dichotomy as the headline claim by the Tele is emotive.

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Your questions are premised on two assumptions: «all citizens are equally injured by the misconduct, so long as they were under the official's jurisdiction», and «Common Law was abolished in New Jersey in 1979» These are both false!

The arguments presented teeter on a false premise: you describe the only possible justifications for imprisonment as, on the one hand, «because it makes us feel good» and, on the other hand, deterrence — presented with those false alternatives, it's hardly a surprise that we end up on a road which leads to an argument for less imprisonment.

Aside from asserting the negation as fact, how is the false premise embedded in the accusation best disputed?