Sentences with phrase «illogic of»

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The reason don't seem to be in the science or the logic and illogic of various cases people make for or against it.

It is more a measure of the illogic of what is happening.

Even people who don't understand the science recognize the illogic of arguing that colder temperatures are due to warming.

I think that arguments about magnitude of sensitivity and estimates of certainly are the rightful domain of a skeptic (and even, IMO, arguments about the physics of AGW)-- but the «skeptical» illogic of claiming to accept the basic physic of AGW and at the same time claiming that global warming has «stopped» or «paused» remains.

Brandon — I pointed to the illogic of saying that «reasonable voices» are on the «alarmist side.»

You have not, to my awareness regularly insulted the entire skeptical community with straw man statements, then refused to engage in rational discussion when called out on the illogic of your statements.

I always promise myself not to get surprised by the illogic of public opinions about climate change... but check out that interactive graphic..

I believe the first post on this blog to protest the illogic of the back - radiation theory was my post sixteen months ago.

Bob; I'm glad you linked to McIntyre's discussion of the «Bucket» case; this has always intriqued me because the AGW crew have been furious with the 40's dip in temp as it contradicts the effect of the linear increase in CO2 and its monotonic connotations for temp; to overcome the mid-century decline the global dimming hilarity was espoused; the Bucket case added a further dimension of hilarity to this because if the temps actually hadn't dropped as per the Bucket case then global dimming was rubbish; such is the illogic of the orthodoxy.

People understand the illogic of monetary policies as debts and deficits balloon and CO2 levels increase while temperature decreases.

Lee was SMS before there was SMS... But his nuggets, once deciphered, were like riddles and clues to treasures of data on any topic.He had the knack of interdisciplinary data mining, to cut to the heart of social responses to bus - rapid - transit in Xian or Makati, or to the illogic of cash for guzzler programs that claim one thing yet deliver another, or to a longitudinal housing preference survey that could me mined for data on the economics of transport choices.Lee saw the forests and the trees in a dance as whimsical as his Jazz.

Yet she kept to the glorious logic or illogic of unframed canvas even as Stella himself was growing fussier in metal.

Marjorie Welish knows as much as anyone the logic and illogic of abstraction.

Unfortunately, he won't remind you of the inherent illogic of this overall proposition... accelerating economic growth (& increasing employment), an equity market that's still attractively priced, low inflation, and near - zero (or even negative) interest rates, surely can't go on happily co-existing together.

(Even world - class cost - cutter Sergio Marchionne, who leads Chrysler and Fiat, views a two - tier pay scale as unworkable in the long term because of the morale - busting illogic of paying two employees such disparate wages to do the same job.)

And thus the illogic of Senator Tom Harkin's approach, which — though making faint attempts to clarify that the content of standards is up to the states — proceeds to micromanage state accountability systems in myriad ways.

To capture the illogic of bureaucratic attempts to keep pace with reality, Goodman quotes a Department of Labor employee who was dealing with the problem of training people for specific jobs.

This year the Academy broke with the illogic of recent award ceremonies by giving Oscar to the people who directed the Best Picture instead of splitting the honor.

From here the movie spirals into the elaborate illogic of the videogame on which it's based.

Rather than the hallucinatory dreaminess Lynch injects into films like Blue Velvet (the most similar), this film is ruled by the ferociously logical illogic of childhood.

The illogic of the situation is so extreme that the final confrontation plays like an afterthought.

The messy emotions and illogic of human nature defines this drama.

The apparent illogic of two people who do exactly the same work for different employers — or even of one person who does the same work in two different institutions — receiving different legal treatment depending on the identity of the employer is inherent in the nation's labor laws, they agreed.

«The illogic of the Government's contentions is palpable,» Watson wrote.

Whether Oomen's view is more or less like Whitehead's, I hesitate to say since Whitehead's view is not clear, but any formulation of a single - entity view of God will likely stumble into the illogic of substance philosophy, «the notion of an actual entity which is characterized by essential qualities, and remains numerically one amidst the changes of accidental relations and of accidental qualities» (PR 79).11 New additions to God's satisfaction «would certainly be accidental.

Further, in an apropo analogy, Rienzi looks to for - profit companies like Whole Foods that clearly take moral views on economic philosophy or the environment, and explains the illogic of allowing corporations to take such views while maintaining that a company could not take a similar, religious - based position.

The ruthless illogic of his unintentional negation of time really catches up with Altizer in the culminating statement he offers in support of his claim that the Nietzsche he follows does not fall prey to Eliade's regression.

However, despite the illogic of it all, «straight people» still tend to receive more societal advantages from their appellation, and thus the dismantling of the orientation schema threatens them far more than it does their «gay» and «lesbian» counterparts.

Apart from the general illogic of the notion that rights are given (by kings or constitutions), such a notion collides with the American experience in at least two ways.

I confess that I draw encouragement from the way in which, in the last seventeen years, a democratic people, opposing almost every establishment of the society, has refused to acquiesce in the lethal illogic of Roe v. Wade.

But the illogic of the Christians doesn't stop there.

Do you not see the illogic of such statements?

Thanks for poignantly demonstrating the illogic of faith and the sad potency and mind - destroying nature of religious delusion.

Answering to yourself why you reject all of the other gods, should give you a clue as to the illogic of belief in any one of the thousands of gods that men think exist.

Seriously, aside from the insanity of believing what you do, the sheer illogic of what you are suggestion is easily grasped by the slightest critical thought.

My flat - world comment was to point out the illogic of believing something to be true without evidence, and using that belief to displace scientific theories that do have supportive evidence.

Not exact matches

In the meantime, Penguin authors are suffering from a healthy dose of illogic, like grossly overpriced ebooks.

Obviously here is the problem with this nonsensical illogic that is Christianity, which a perverted form of a Jewish heresy tainted by Greco Roman religion and culture.

His inst - i - tute of illogic is a truly great place to get an edjumacayshun.

«the less free your mindset becomes» If you mean that, the more knowledge you acquire, the less likely it becomes to ignore the fact that Christianity if full of inconsistencies, illogic, and other problems, then yes.

Of course any one can catch anyone else up in their inconsistency, contradictions, irrationality, illogic.

That is the height of illogic.

Hitch was wonderfully rational, a logical positivist and warrior against all forms of irrationality and illogic.

It's really disturbing to me that this type of illogic and over the top editorializing is taken as legitimate.

I can never get over the illogic that fuels soooooo much of the atheists anti-religion stance.

Anybody who actually DOES read it, and does so objectively, will notice it's full of flaws, inconsistencies, illogic and just plain nonsense.

I'm not saying you're wrong — just trying to sustain conversation (I call it converse action, my idiocy) on how we talk about ultimate matters on the one hand, practical matters on the other hand, rationality and irrationality, logic, analogic and illogic, belief (bias), faith (by virtue of the absurd).

Topher shows us how easy it is to slip back into old patterns of illogic, though he will quite likely demonstrate how no longer useful traits get weeded out of the gene pool as those few like him fade into the past.

So if there are no atheist posts, wouldn't that be right» Yes, atheists don't believe your god exists; but, many of us do believe your religion is one of greatest disasters to ever befall human kind and so we are here to make sure your lies and illogic don't go unchallenged unlike the last 2000 years Your just miffed that christians cant burn heretics at the stake any more