false reasoning

Setting aside what relates to political economy, this phenomenon leads to false reasoning.

As we have seen, in the past false biological views led to false reasoning.

Its proofs, however, are paralogisms, or the results of false reasoning.

But this kind of false reasoning could be used by any number of institutions and individuals to justify plundering cultural heritage.

But this is false reasoning.

An example of this false reasoning follows:

False equivalence, and false reasoning generally, tends to be associated with those on the further ends of the political spectrum.

In an interview, Mr. Friedman accused the Air Force of false reasoning, selective use of data and lying.

Sitting near me on some occasion of a trifling but wordy debate, he asked how I could sit in silence hearing so much false reasoning which a word should refute?

Rationalization (making excuses): Where a person convinces him or herself that no wrong was done and that all is or was all right through faulty and false reasoning.

Rothman quotes a vivid allegory of this false reasoning: the 'Texas sharpshooter' fires a shot randomly into the side of a barn, then draws a target centred on the hole.

The impulses of love are so subtile, and the influence of false reasoning, when enforced by eloquence and passion, so unbounded, that no human virtue is secure from degeneracy.

Professor David Nutt, a UK drug expert, points out that the study cited by the British Lung Foundation has been accused of both "false reasoning" and "incorrect methodology".

"You are proud to show me how, following the dictates of your reason, you arrived at me, and yet you have shown me you arrived here by following a false reasoning.

And let it not be said that the Cohesion Fund is intended to help its beneficiaries to join the euro, and nothing more. That is mere sophistry: false reasoning masquerading as sound argument.

Milton aimed to expose false reasoning from the opposition, citing scripture throughout the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates to counter biblical reference that would cast holy and public disapproval on Parliament's actions.

I do, in the next place, complain of my own great want of judgment, in being prevailed upon by the entreaties and false reasoning of you and some others, very much against my own opinion, to suffer my travels to be published.

Adopting a more serious tone than his previous lectures, he took great pains to reveal the false reasoning and misrepresentation of evidence that marked subjects such as "Astrology and Alchemy", his first lecture, and "Medical Delusions of the Past", his second.

There was a pause after that last speech, and Christie felt as if her perplexity was clearing away very fast; for Mrs. Wilkins's plain talk seemed to show her things in their true light, with all the illusions of false sentiment and false reasoning stripped away.

I very much regret, and indeed it is a great shame, that the Council is not present at this debate, as we are thereby being deprived of the right to obtain answers on a number of points which, unfortunately, lead to false reasoning regarding the content of this new initiative.

His official blog's entry for 2008-01-23 contained a graphic that read, "Done & Dusted & Self Conscious & Back to Work." followed by the quote "There is danger in theoretical speculation of battle, in prejudice, in false reasoning, in pride, in wiktionary:braggadocio.

To the Editor: Re "Why the Marriage Penalty Is Marriage" (Op-Ed, Oct. 28): While Stephanie Coontz and Donna Franklin decry the financial poverty of single-parent families, they display a poverty of values infiltrating their false reasoning and misguided proposals.