Critics also refer to the fact that many people hold inconsistent or even conflicting opinions, as shown by the polls themselves.
Sometimes polls include factual questions that help to assess knowledge, such as "Can you tell me how the veto power in the United Nations Security Council works?" Furthermore, argue the researchers, if people are ignorant, or if they hold inconsistent opinions, this should be known.
Clearly, the author takes for granted the following: first, that the propositions assented to are inconsistent, satisfying the following inconsistent propositional schemata of α, ¬β, α→β; second, that it is wrong to hold inconsistent propositions; and, third, that if α→β, then ¬β→¬α that is, half of the equivalence of the principle of contraposition.
Many hold inconsistent ideas about what energy is, how and why it changes during the course of a chemical reaction, and how these changes are related to bond energies and reaction dynamics.
The problem this creates is that students' understanding of energy is not just fragmented across disciplinary lines, but that students hold potentially inconsistent ideas about what energy means or how it behaves in different contexts.
According to some interpretations, Meinong, too, was a dialetheist, holding that some non-existent objects, such as the round square, have inconsistent properties (see Routley, 1980, Chapter 5).
c. make inconsistent statements.
It has been held back by inconsistent payments from the Kurdistan regional government and the rock-bottom oil price.
The university then sent both articles to stem cell experts to assess whether the conclusions would still hold if the inconsistent data were to be eliminated.
Taken at face value, the lack of a statistically significant correlation would cast doubt on the commonly held belief that inconsistent witnesses are not trustworthy.
