Sentences with phrase «second false premise»

The second false premise is the author's claim that Argo temperature data is precise to 0.1 deg C, a really blatant misreading of the instrument's capability.

Which brings us to the second false premise — that you can, or should, start from scratch.

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And the second is that Premise X is what I shall call «metaphysically false.»

If we discount appeals that had relevance only when considering the claim that Premise X is meaningless or the claim that Premise X is logically false (i.e., Griffin's appeal to the meaninglessness of «X is a powerless actuality» in the first case and to «the definition of «actual being» in the second case), Griffin's text provides nothing in the way of support for the assertion that the metaphysical principle upon which he is relying is correct.

In the first part of this article series, I talked about the flawed logic behind the purported benefits of «loosened muscles» and «deeper stretching,» while in the second article I discussed how spinal flexibility isn't necessarily a desired outcome and that the main premise behind hot yoga — that it burns more calories than exercise in a room of normal temperature — is completely false.