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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a faulty premise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an argument or reasoning that is based on incorrect or flawed assumptions.
Example: "The conclusion drawn from the study is invalid because it is based on a faulty premise."
Alternatives: "an incorrect assumption" or "a flawed basis".
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But for many politicians, the refusal to raise tax rates rests on a faulty premise.
This is a faulty premise that ignores how pension funding works..
But proponents of civilian trials contended that such criticism was based on a faulty premise.
But it might be a misguided pursuit, based on a faulty premise.
The problem with all this analysis is that it begins on a faulty premise.
The report disclosed that waterboarding and other techniques used were based on a faulty premise.
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This logic is however premised on a faulty assumption, namely that the status quo is itself without costs or risks, and that the only costs and risks to be factored into our deliberations concerning the desirability of moving away from the status quo are the ones that accompany the move away from the status quo.
But that is a faulty assumption.
But a more fundamental problem is the faulty premise on which the conference is based — that the talks must start from scratch.
This Court should resist extending the reasoning of Smith v. Maryland — a 38-year-old case built on a faulty privacy premise — to the modern, hyper-connected, technology-dependent world.
The "virtual fence" was a misbegotten idea from the start, based on the faulty premise that controlling immigration is as simple as closing the border — and that closing the border is a simple matter of more sensors, more fencing and more boots on the ground.
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