Sentence examples for dubious notions from inspiring English sources

One alleged problem of Nagelian models is that they start from a mistaken background view of science in that they conceive of theories as syntactic objects and rely on dubious notions about the nature of laws and theoretical terms.

By introducing precise definitions of such notions, these thinkers exposed ambiguities (e.g., such as with the word "infinite"), revealed interrelations between certain of them, and eliminated dubious notions that had previously caused confusion and paradoxes (such as those involved with the notion of an "infinitesimal").

The argument depends on several dubious notions.

It has to do with tradition-as-correctness, a thirst for the moral high ground, and dubious notions of safety.

Implicit here are the dubious notions that it is possible to cure violence with further violence, and that the destruction of an unborn child's life can in some instances be acceptable as a means to an end".

They came roaring out from the back of the right-wing cave last week when the Heritage Foundation published an attack on immigration reform cobbled together by a character whose academic record includes some extreme (and extremely dubious) notions about the intelligence of Hispanics.

This is a dubious notion, and "Tabu" makes it convincing only within the narrow compass of its own artifice.

But this is based on the dubious notion that the US military can stop the violence in Syria.

Rather than focusing on the dubious notion of supposed female fallibility, Gloger seems to be addressing wider questions about the honesty and reality of all human emotions.

This is a dubious notion since, by this point, support for social insurance programs are pretty well ingrained in the political system.

At the same time, almost as taxing, he had to investigate himself: "I was trying to discover myself – on the whole, when examined, a somewhat dubious notion, since I was also trying to avoid myself".