Sentences with phrase «own dubious reasoning»

Knowledge of the existence of a vital third (organic) tradition — the others being Aristotelianism and mechanism — in the seventeenth century, of its early success in promoting scientific discoveries, and of the dubious reasons for its defeat, may help embolden some theologians to revive this tradition, in purified form, in a way that would be beneficial both to the religious life of humanity and its «scientific» understanding of the reality in which it finds itself (p. 41)

I suspect that a large chunk of the unhappiness can be traced back to dubious reasons for getting married in the first place.

Aside from the obvious conflict of interest that the donation implies, and the dubious reasons for which it was offered, the actual food being donated will put Brazilians at risk.

This means we will be in a state of standstill transition for many years, foolishly trying to unpick decades of economic integration for dubious reasons.

i've also been stopped by traffic cops for what seemed like dubious reasons.

His record on gay rights is despicable and given this is not the first time he has employed a special adviser for dubious reasons, what did he expect.

One of the most wholly original slice of life character studies in years as a young «actress» befriends an old woman for dubious reasons to incongruously sweet results

But alas, someone on Square's legal team must have hated the idea and shut down the project almost without warning for some dubious reason.

The criminal aspect is not only the failure of the alarmsits to observe these basic facts bu the Hockeystick fraud giving hundreds of times the weighting to faulty Bristlecone pine proxy data as to other sets in order to give a desired result, the blatant tampering of Data to warm the past with extremely dubious reasons, the NZ NWA scandal where they demonstrably altered data to fit the alarmist agenda, the Darwin Australia tampering, the crude attempt to prove a «hotspot» by making the base temperature representation red and thus appear hot in a now debunked graph etc Then there's the Nazi / Stalin / Lenin / Maoesque attempts to silence debate.

But even they do so for dubious reasons.

Once again we are faced with big - money groups, along the lines of those who have for decades funded climate change denial and climate science skepticism campaigns; now, they are fabricating their own dubious reasoning to undermine policy solutions to climate change.

Of course, this being Friday and all, if you want to check out some weird sci - fi take a look at The 5.000 Fingers of Dr. T. Something of major cultural event when I was growing up on Vancouver Island in the 60's, for obvious if not dubious reasons.

Add in VUDU and Apple's support for Movies Anywhere, and only HDR remains as a reason to go through Microsoft — a dubious reason for an extra ten dollars.

Last words: Another thing to keep in mind is that unless you have been out of work for a long time, or you were released from your previous company for dubious reasons, there is no reason why the hiring company you will not give you a raise.

Not exact matches

As an atheist I find it dubious that anyone could site «facts» as their reason for converting to Catholicism.

When biblical texts are the only sufficient reason for holding ethical and political views, a dubious «divine voluntarism» results.

We are now both biblical and modern; and on both grounds we reject this medieval Aristotle, this static and hierarchical view, this dubious rendition of faith and reason, this impossible and oppressive ideological system.

I agree with Sam that our reasons or should I say excuses for going to war are dubious at best.

Whatever the real reason may be, the fact remains that these dubious verses played an important role in stirring up dispute among Muhammad's followers of the second generation.

The reason for the presence of these dubious verses in the Qur» an has been discussed by theologians.

Though one can understand the reasons for the rise of this Christian pragmatism, it remains a dubious thing, giving birth to all sorts of skeptical questions.

The primary reason why I, and I believe most other FWTs, do not accept the process characterization of God's interventive capacities is because this characterization appears to be based on a very dubious experiential foundation.

Obviously, the adoption of these proposals might become part of a decline of the ELCA into a more than dubious liberalism (although parts of the ELCA seem to be traveling along such a road already without help from others, thank you), but there is no reason why it should be such, if the proposals are adopted for sound theological reasons and if Lutherans enter these new relations precisely as the beginning of a process of pursuing a common life that must be held to the gospel the proposals witness to.

It is not just that it is more or less futile (for the sociological reasons I have mentioned) or that it is philosophically dubious.

For me, however, what makes Spinoza the emblem of a fascinating but dubious outlook is his axiomatic belief that there is only one way for the world to be, namely, in accordance with absolute reason.

(Hollenbach and Hicks offer good reasons to be dubious of an approach limited to government policies unsupported by systematic moral arguments and changes in civic institutions,)

The approach to the question has commonly been through postulating analogies to the established practice of all Hither Asia, a line of reasoning which, in view of the notable independence of Israel's thinking, is recognized to be highly dubious.

The advantage afforded by the consequences is dubious for still another reason, in so far as the consequences do not follow directly, as simple consequences.

But what, if any, are the consequences of Wednesday's enthralling contest, a match which had us all riveted to our seats for one reason or another, whether it be for the high - octane football, the quality of the goals or even the countless dubious decisions — there will have been few switching over the channel before the final whistle eventually blew, and even then the drama didn't end there.

The big reason to be dubious about Brown is that he's in the pocket of big labor.

But for meddlesome reasons, some Albany pols want to overrule the City Council, citing dubious principle.

By obvious reasons (especially publishing date), the list contains all 110 Messier objects, although one could dispute is the «dubious objects» M24, M40, and M73 should be included.

Hi, yes its strange to some but not to scientists.Actually there is not really that much connection between fat and heart disease at all.It was Ancel Benjamin Keys that came up with that dubious «Seven Countries» studies.My own view is that meat for people with established heart disease is probably not a good idea.The reason being is that people with established heart disease usually got there either by bad genetics, or by bad dietary and lifestyle choices over a number of years.Meat and fat is know to reduce blood flow and constrict the arteries which in healthy people may be of no immediate harm.However in someone with known heart disease any constriction and lack of blood flow to and from the heart is NOT a good idea obviously.

The reasoning for this of course is to promote that ever dubious concept of replayability.

Even if some people would go as far to reason that spending too much time browsing through porn sites constitutes a (slightly dubious) variant of infidelity, the common denominator in all these deeds is deceit, a breach of trust.

Even if the reasoning behind that win might be more than a little dubious for some voters.

Why, then, does it feel dubious in certain ways, and perhaps troubling for the wrong reasons?

There's a reason that none of these men are in serious relationships and their advice is dubious at best.

Suffice it to say that, while the reasoning for which they bring Frank back is dubious at best, we're sure glad they did it.

I do like Smashwords for many reasons (though less so for some of the more dubious «erotica» published on there these days!).

For accessibility reasons, you should try to give an equivalent, but say it's legally dubious to reproduce a government tax form.

I did so for several reasons: 1 — there is virtually no money to be made or commercial market for poetry, 2 — many of the publishing options are fee based contests, some of dubious reputation, 3 — I wanted to have a volume of poetry I could use as a gift for friends and family, and 4 — all of the poems had been work - shopped extensively and had the benefit of some objective vetting / editorial process.

If you're still dubious or need some support to back up your claims for a semester abroad to mom and dad, CreditDonkey has 23 reasons why you should consider taking flight.

Cats (and there's no reason to think these weren't pets — Marra, in fact, says at least one of them was) were the cause of six of the 33 mortalities (though Marra tacks on three more, based, I argue, on some dubious claims).

The Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature card is a smart choice for current Amazon Prime members, but a dubious card selection for people with no other reason to pay $ 99 for a Prime membership.

For reasons dubiously heroic, and at times heroically dubious, the honorees have included the late John Murtha and Hugo Chávez, and the very much alive Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.

While the last sentence may have some merit (for different reasons from those above), the rest seems dubious.

So, yes, when someone demands I pay for this or that, and I find the reason highly dubious, I do act.

------------ Reason Bad / outdated notation scanty / outdated references imprecise / foggy reasoning dubious conclusions.

Similarly, it doesn't take a great thermodynamicist to recognize poor notation, imprecise reasoning, scanty references, and dubious conclusions.