Sentence examples for illogical conclusions from inspiring English sources

Jennifer Bartlett likes to pose questions, then follow them to logical — or occasionally illogical — conclusions.

The best satirists ignite debate by dragging logical arguments to their illogical conclusions, and Stanhope's provocative proposals make him a Jonathan Swift for the 9/11 generation.

Instead, he has written a book that reads like a combination of White House talking points and a partisan brief on presidential prerogatives — a book that is strewn with preposterous assertions, contorted reasoning and illogical conclusions.

Slightly older children, from 6 to 8, were generally quick to appreciate the permanence of death, but they were also likely to conclude that they were responsible for the death, or to draw other illogical conclusions about what was happening.

If the RapGeniuses are sophists — like the sneaky Greek philosophers who perniciously used logic to lead followers to illogical conclusions — then their wrongheaded conclusion is perhaps that all of this can, or should, be explained in a linear, X-means-Y fashion.

Yet when "Case Closed" was published in 1993 you doubted its reasoning, concluding that it "does little more than smugly slant every piece of disputed evidence in favour of the lone-assassin theory an approach exactly opposite to that of conspiracy writers, who follow every inference in the evidence to their own illogical conclusions" ("The death of a president", October 9th 1993).

Any suggestion was taken to its illogical conclusion.

"You're beginning with an illogical premise, and proceeding perfectly logically to an illogical conclusion, which is a dangerous thing to do," he recently told a reporter.

However, legal wrangling has produced the illogical conclusion that one bay has no impact on the rest of the lake, thus avoiding the boundaries of the reservation.

But I decided to take the ambient H1N1 anxiety to its illogical conclusion, and navigate the city in full protective gear.

In "Five Easy Pieces: How Fishing Impacts Marine Ecosystems" (Island Press; $50), Pauly follows this trend to its logical — or, if you prefer, illogical — conclusion.