Sentence examples for a spurious explanation from inspiring English sources

Even if one could produce such a spurious explanation and stipulate that the chair as a whole is a bearer of information that characterizes its best location, there are no parts of the chair whose function is to specify that chair or its optimal placing (for example, by being similar to the chair).

An example is CANOE - the Committee to Assign Naval Origins to Everything (not a real committee!) - which gives an entirely spurious explanation as to the origins of "brass monkey weather".

The current review found that almost 100 papers (eliminated from the final analysis) did not use an overarching framework to examine their findings, leaving them open to spurious explanations.

Hence, if the PIN-specific attenuation is not a spurious effect, an explanation that remains is that it is due to differences in cognitive strategies in the preparation of incompletely specified imagined and executed movements.

Leydesdorff and Ivanova (2014) gave an explanation: A spurious correlation can reduce uncertainty, as when two parents reduce uncertainty for a child by providing mutually consistent answers to questions.

Another explanation for a spurious association could be hidden population stratification.

Robert Roser, co-spokesperson for the CDF team, acknowledges that now the simplest explanation is that CDF has picked up a spurious signal.

Several explanations are plausible for this finding, including a spurious finding, a biologically different ovulation process in this group, and higher folate use.

It is a spurious argument.

This could be a spurious, sentimental gesture.

The source is a spurious entry on the Internet Movie Database.