Sentences with phrase «flawed argument for»

Leaping to define a null hypothesis without those prior steps leads to the fundamental cause of Trenberth's epistemologically and metaphysically flawed argument for reversing the null hypothesis.

Personal attacks, accusations of dishonesty, alleged use of flawed arguments for failing to mention this or that detail in a presentation for a non-technical audience... difficult to believe that it's all just about atmospheric physics, isn't it?

Not exact matches

Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.

The study of Epistemology reveals that all sources of knowledge are flawed — authority, the 5 senses, memory, intuition, and logic (a counter argument for every argument).

You'd think you'd have a better handle on the issue before you made fun of someone else for having a «flawed argument».

The argument that the best we can do for the planet's future is have fewer children is based on a flawed assumption: that we can not change our lifestyle and consume less.

your role now as atheist, is to be the opposing argumenter for the modern day change process or evolution of the present religion from monotheism which you have shown in your arguments to be flawed so that the future faithfuls will shift to the ultra modern faith called PANTHROTHEISM - the synthesis of theistic monotheism vs.humanistic atheism.I suggest to you to be more aggressive and conscise in your arguments, God needs you

Assume for the sake of argument that the designer must be intelligent (ignoring of course many designs / results which from our own experience are flawed or counterproductive) 3.

I'm showing as Alias does and as C.S. Lewis taught us in the 1930's that people who pine for a «perfectly just world» as evidence for God, ala DD, have a flawed argument.

Secondly, you are doing the classical Christian Apologetics move by attempting to take a flaw in your position and ask for the other side to make your argument for you.

I am all for animal rights and everything and love all animals, but your argument is flawed.

Indeed, they are likely to conclude that we hardly need a philosopher of Anscombe's status to disprove Lewis; for Wilson writes that «any dispassionate reader can at once see many flaws in Lewis's arguments here.»

«many pro-life advocates unwittingly allow this flawed anthropology (of our contemporaries) to prosper because they do not offer any proof or argument for the existence of the spiritual soul, which is the only rational ground for uniquely human personhood».

Christian addresses seven flaws in the atheists» arguments for the non-existence of «that Loser,» the «biggest fraud of all time, cosmic zero, ultimate no - show» — sexual liberty, reason and logic, good works, art, converts to Christianity, the human family, and life issues.

This flawed argument is for the pulpit; not for people who think logically.

Many pro-life advocates and resources can unwittingly allow this flawed anthropology to prosper because they do not offer any proof or argument for the existence of the spiritual soul, which is the only rational ground for a uniquely human «personhood».

But Radner has also developed an argument for why it is important to stay in what he sees as a deeply flawed church.

Fortunately my colleagues exposed your flawed arguments in your stupid post, making it pointless for me to try add more.

I don't think your definition of democracy is right and your argument that the majority of property can't be controlled by the public is the basis for democracy is somewhat flawed.

Although one of the sharpest brains in the former government, Adonis was blind to the flaws in the argument that the Tories would be bad for «Labour's people».

There were plenty of good arguments for not interfering in Syria last week, including the lack of a publicly - presented plan, the potential for escalation in the event of inadvertent hits on Russian personnel, and the character flaws of the US president, which make any military initiative unpredictable.

The British government's argument for secret courts is flawed in both moral and practical terms, and should be resisted, says David Davis in The Guardian

Steven Pinker argues for optimism and Enlightenment values in his latest book, but there are some serious flaws in his argument

Using a similar argument, Jones previously pointed out that the work for which Einstein received his Nobel prize, the «proof» that photons exist based on the photoelectric effect, is similarly flawed.

The episode showed Brown that well - crafted arguments about flawed research are hard for editors to ignore.

I think the flaw in this argument is that people with a weight issue generally eat MORE than their metabolic requirement, so cutting calories makes sense for them, and these people also have a low muscle / adipose tissue ratio, so resistance training is essential.

While this «time trend» argument is intuitive, it is flawed for two reasons.

And those of us who teach classes about education policy and are constantly looking for interesting, flawed books on education policy are the real winners, as Reign of Error combines a great deal of clear explication of issues with provocative arguments that its readers (such as my future students) can poke holes through.

For me, there are major flaws in these arguments, which I think place way too much faith in the wisdom of crowds (an oxymoron, in my opinion)-- but I think the anger about gatekeeping is an ideological issue, rather than a wholesale rejection of quality standards.

Unfortunately, the switch to digital also carries with it a built - in flaw, which is that subscribers expect to read digital at a lower price — hence a lot of the argument between booksellers and publishers over ebook pricing — and advertisers expect to pay less for digital ad space.

On the second count, the argument for how dividend payments moderate price declines is fundamentally flawed.

The flaw in this argument, in my view, is that it ignores the emotional effect that large short - term stock gains may have on the investor following a get - out - of - stocks - for - now strategy.

but, many of your arguments are deeply flawed: That equities have made good returns since 1926 is pointless for a number of reasons: Firstly, most people do not have 85 years or an arbitrarily long period of time to save up for retirement.

I was more or less pointing out the flaws in his argument (the whole basis for this article) in that he said it isn't powerful enough, but then goes on to say that maybe they will look into a Switch version in the future but right now it's not a priority.

«We are problems made to be fixed,» she states, echoing the so - called moral argument for slavery, which justified industrialized barbarity on the grounds that blackness was a flaw requiring white intervention.

Tamino presents a fairly convincing argument that Hansen's method for estimating changes in variance is flawed.

If you take «80 by 2050 ″ arguments seriously, don't take my word for it in weighing the merits and flaws of Romm's call for massive deployment with a sprinkling of R&D.

Indeed I raised the funding issue specifically to contrast an argument based on dismissing him for that as opposed to pointing out why his scientific output was flawed.

These studies have another basic flaw: the analyses usually involve an «argument from ignorance» (i.e. «we can only explain this if we assume...»), where unknown factors are simply ignored and the assumption is that all factors can be accounted for.

I'll adopt the FTAs» estimates for the sake of argument, despite some flaws in their analyses, noted here.

I hate to admit that I, like Willis, even fell for this argument for a brief time until the obvious flaws were pointed out.

And in fact, for this example, you can (and do) justify these intervals as being confidence intervals according to standard frequentist arguments (albeit ones that I think are flawed in this context).

The 50/50 argument is flawed for two reasons.

Karly... Regardless of the actual flaws in Mr Steel's argument, and his failure to show that his CSI considerations can produce anything like a hockey - stick shaped temperature profile, this statement alone makes it impossible for me to take Mr Steel seriously.

The comments ring praise for blatantly flawed arguments and work.

Basically, the «only 1 % of the problem» argument is flawed for several reasons already identified in this blog, but here is another: it assumes that human beings are not affected by the behaviour of others.

But the basic flaw still exists in your argument — a lack of appreciation for uncertainty and a self - conferred «authority» that gets your arguments into trouble repeatedly.

If someone here with some real knowledge have a good argument for why my reasoning was flawed, I'd like to know.

Kolbert's argument is flawed for multiple reasons including the fact that she fails to consider the actual climate impact and the -LSB-...]

It would be an ad hom for me to assume that their argument is fatally flawed because of their display of obviously flawed reasoning, but their argument is inherently diminished as it is clear that they aren't serious about holding themselves accountable for obviously flawed reasoning.