Sentences with phrase «in sophistry»

The article and the ideas of the economist displayed in it, are simply one more example of an economist being very clever and indulging in sophistry to suggest what, if there were solid evidence for it, would be a surprising result.

Until then, for me, all the most finely honed scientific defence about what Marcott et al actually said just goes in the sophistry bin.

It's a master class in sophistry.

Over the past few years, the once - respectable education historian has discredited herself with factual inaccuracies and and logical misfires in her sophistry.

This just seems like an exceedingly silly exercise in sophistry.

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This allows sophistry based on your extreme egocentrism, in short, allows you to lie your ass off.

Instead of critiquing the straw man accusation in this instance on its merits, instead you «appealed to ridicule,» mocking the concept itself, as if by mocking the concept, «magically» (your word choice) people will no longer see the straw men we employ, and we can continue with our sophistries unchecked.

We must believe on account of the Word of God when, admonished by the church, we understand that this meaning is truly and without sophistry taught in the Word of God.»

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

In other words, you would invoke supernatural sophistry to reassure yourself that your religion's god is The One True God.

Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money.

It is so deeply enveloped in theological sophistry and dialectics that it is the subject primarily of academic theological argument and can not be made effective among the people, to whom it appeals chiefly emotionally as a representation of Christian conservatism.

Either in confused obscurity about oneself and one's significance, or with a trace of hypocrisy, or by the help of cunning and sophistry which is present in all despair, despair over sin is not indisposed to bestow upon itself the appearance of something good.

All that unrefined french sophistry can be directed at a new victim — preferably, in a far away land.

Surely what you mean is «Ken may well employ sophistry to claim that he is not technically in breach of party rules, because saying that the candidate should not have been dropped, walking around for the TV cameras with the rival candidate (and having a quick chat about why the Labour candidate) did not in fact entail an explicit «vote Rahman» public statement (even though the whole point was to convey precisely that impression to any sentient being).

Sunder: Surely what you mean is «Ken may well employ sophistry to claim that he is not technically in breach of party rules,....

The assertion about the huge financial involvement in my views is in order but may not be completely correct, as the argument was not only sophistry but antithetical to building a nation devoid of corruption and goes against the global warning on corruption as succulently pointed out.

In realistic terms, every other consideration amounts to political deceit and sophistry.

It is a dating platform for mature singles over 50 who are doing better in life than the lesser mortals, who have a penchant for the sophistries of the world, have interest in larger and more important affairs than just personal needs, and those who are ambitious and have lucid goals.

Thus begins the running joke of ex-theatre wunderkind Martin McDonagh's clever, savvy and enjoyable revamp of the odd - couple / gangster caper, a genre picture confident its own audience - pleasing verbal sparrings, joke - enabling moral sophistry and tongue - in - cheek classical and cinematic borrowings — from Hieronymus Bosch's «Last Judgement» to Nic Roeg's «Don't Look Now» and every belfry, picaresque canal and famous seventeenth - century building in the «Venice of the North».

The obvious objection to my claim that academic education is itself a kind of moral education is to point out that the information and skills acquired in school are just as easily put in the service of sophistry as in the service of truth - seeking.

It will also take strong rhetorical and polemical engagement with education traditionalists — many of which are ready to engage in name - calling, sophistry and crude propaganda — in order to win the day.

That there are more Latino children in public schools now than at the time George W. Bush signed No Child into law, and yet, are improving academically proves the too - many - immigrant - and - minority children argument to be pure sophistry.

re «Whereas in Greek mythology»... yes indeed, for that is all you have to support your fraudulent sophistry, Mythological Thinking — not science and zero hard evidence.

There is no amount of sophistry that can get around this extremely basic and fundamental natural law of our universe, and is precisely why a Perpetuum Mobile is impossible in this universe, and also precisely why heat can not pile up, and precisely why a «radiative greenhouse effect» is also impossible in this universe.

Lump that in with the same simple sophistry that organizations, i.e. NASA, GSA, WMO, etc., can give opinions on anything.

It's got every element of pseudoskeptic sophistry, all in one neat package:

I suggest you take time off from the hair - splitting, conspiracy theorizing, and sophistry to take a trip up north in Canada or Alaska, where the warming is undeniable even to the most skeptical observer.

We have Steven's ongoing sophistry in his presentations and everyone jumps in high - fiving cuz we all know GISS just sucks and here is more proof that Hansen is a doody - head.

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal.

Oh, dear, what can the matter be why am I slated for ignobility in the service of moderation selectivity, I can be no more than sophistry, so long at the fair maidens hand.

He is engaging in quote mining and sophistry.

«There are no observations that we have been having catastrophic global warming — it's sophistry,» Palmer declared in the interview.

The readership of this blog is more than sufficiently educated on the science to be taken in by your sophistry and dissembling.

Your insisting that we * understand * everything that causes natural variation before we can say that, in light of the record, there is nothing happening that hasn't happened many times in the past, and can't be explained by natural variation, is pure sophistry.

This skew necessarily creates huge holes in the tapestry of knowledge needed to understand the science clearly, since skin in the game of private sector styled funding would necessarily drive the focus towards the personally rewarding hotspots and a kind of sophistry that chases preferred outcomes instead of unfortunate, non profitable realities.

In a clunky bit of sophistry, the author asserts that charging lawyers well above market for a commoditized service like blog development and hosting actually helps them because «Focusing on price, as opposed to quality and service, leaves the American lawyer ill - served.

The dining table has to be the centerpiece furniture in your dining room which will provide sophistry, elegance and style without any taint of inexpensiveness in its quality and design.