Sentence examples for faulty explanation from inspiring English sources

But he notes that Rap Genius is designed to weed out wrong answers, using as an example his own faulty explanation of "Jamaican clothes," which the site now says refers to "mesh tank tops with a lot of little holes in them".

Hart's observations about the use of language in law were the basis of an innovative approach to the challenge of explaining the normativity of law — a problem for legal theory that can be clearly seen, Hart claimed, in the faulty explanation of normative language that had captivated Bentham.

Faulty evolutionary explanations incorporating pressures and forces may be explained by the recruitment of everyday force-dynamic reasoning patterns into evolutionary explanations.

Having detected faulty compliance, an explanation should be sought.

Instead, the agency concurred with the automaker's explanation that faulty floor mats and sticky accelerator pedals were causing Toyota's vehicles to suddenly accelerate out of control.

Chip Patterson, the general counsel of MacKenzie Patterson Fuller, the firm making the offer, calls the explanation "completely faulty logic" because the buyers decided to reinvest dividends when they bought the shares, not based on the current condition of the REIT.

However, E. O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler argue that this explanation is faulty: for example, it is based on kin selection, but there is no evidence of nepotism in colonies that have multiple queens.

A1 Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has pressed the Central Intelligence Agency for several months for explanations about the faulty intelligence, particularly its sources, that led Mr. Powell to tell the United Nations Security Council last year that there was no doubt that Iraq possessed illicit weapons, several senior administration officials said.

"Faulty genes" is a quick and easy explanation that often satisfies parents, teachers and even children in the short term, but once you internalise the idea that your brain is endemically faulty, your sense of self may be changed for ever.

The chapter explores two questions in order to understand how the actions the operator took could have made sense to him at the time: (a) Why would a trained and experienced operator conclude that a switch was faulty rather than looking for some other explanation?

It was essential for students to recognize the various connections in logical thinking so that they could identify faulty reasoning, identify reliable evidence and construct explanations before they could refute or support a hypothesis – these were essential science process skills that fostered scientific inquiry (Curriculum Planning and Development Division [CPDD], 2013).