Sentences with phrase «what sophistry»

What sophistry!

It doesn't matter what sophistry they come up with, the fact that the temp does not closely follow CO2 concentration (even allowing for time lag) blows their own argument out of the water.

Tell me, what sophistry... er... I mean «apologetics» did you learn from nut - riding Greg Koukl every Sunday at 3PM?

Not exact matches

What the NFL has been telling players through official memos and brochures up to this point is pure sophistry.

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.»

-- «You can spare us your sophistry, you know very well what I mean.

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,....

When I began I didn't even know what the word sophistry was let alone what it meant or how it worked upon people (like on myself a victim of it) nor how self - delusion worked psychologically.

There is nothing «skeptical» about rejecting the overwhelming scientific evidence of ongoing, dangerous anthropogenic global warming while perpetrating and promoting falsehoods, distortions, sophistry and conspiracy theories, which is what WUWT is all about.

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.

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

And get a little less disgusted with what, when it is not sophistry, is damned rudeness to yourself and others?

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.