Sentence examples for be clearly false from inspiring English sources

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One should not believe something which one judges to be clearly false.

Then the proposition that Alan is exactly 178.5 cm tall should turn out to be clearly false on any good theory of vagueness.

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"It was clearly false," Craig Counsell, the team's player representative, said last week.

Many Americans wandered around saying somehow "we caused this" and that's clearly false.

Legal fiction, a rule assuming as true something that is clearly false.

Claims that "anyone who hasn't done anything wrong has nothing to fear" from this mass surveillance are clearly false.

Myth-busting authors often contrive statements that seem reasonable but on further reflection are so one-sided that they are clearly false.

The S.E.C. accused Jonathan of trying to seem like more than one person when he promoted his stocks, but when you see how and why he did what he did, that is clearly false.

This framework has proven useful to generations of political scientists even though Mr. Downs did not empirically test it and despite the fact that its main prediction, that candidates will take identical positions in elections, is clearly false.

There are other instances of what Paul Krugman calls, in another context, zombie arguments, intended to defend the violence — arguments that are clearly false but impossible to kill off, that attempt to justify both fighting and, bizarrely, violence that doesn't stem directly from fights.

In a statement on Friday, Mr. Grassley's office criticized both men about the questionable sentence in the February letter: "Weinstein knew this was clearly false because he knew about gun-walking in Operation Wide Receiver, which he brought to Breuer's attention in April 2010.

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