Slaves "partake of both qualities" only because that incoherent lie served Southern and Northern interests at the time.
Each time the court says something incoherent because it's afraid of what Mr. Rauch calls a "political firestorm," it loses a little bit of its legitimacy.
Alschuler finds Holmes's defense of judicial restraint "ambiguous" and incoherent because it failed to specify how the dominant power was dominant.
His character Progress Hornsby, the hipster saxophonist, was supposed to be funny because cool-cat incoherent jazz intellectuals were funny, but what really made him funny was something more mysterious — strange facial tics, bent cheeks, eyes that seemed out of control.
His technique of deconstruction aimed to show that every philosophical dichotomy is incoherent, because whatever can be said about one term of the dichotomy can also be said of the other.
But the kind that you extol in The Economist Review of books on the Supreme Court (September 6th) is skewed by your lofty superiority towards Justice Antonin Scalia, and your worshipful tone towards Ronald Dworkin.You say that Justice Scalia's position is incoherent because he does not say "when exactly" he feels bound to uphold precedent he considers to be wrong.
This contains articles ranging from "Rethink Charity" to "Using High-Transparency Banks to Reconnect Money and Meaning").Wanted: a measure of goodnessThe notion of social capital markets can seem incoherent because it brings together such a diverse group of people and institutions.
As Kantor reports, when the president met with Democratic members of Congress who had lost their seats in the midterms because of an incoherent White House economic and jobs strategy, he did not seem to comprehend the anxiety that had spawned the Tea Party, or feel any regret.
One of the three appeal court judges hearing the case, the master of the rolls, Lord Dyson, described the law as "a bit incoherent" because it prevented a child from suing its mother for what appeared to be a "prima facie case" of negligence.
However, this is not because it is incoherent to suppose that we are.
