Sentence examples for infantile argument from inspiring English sources
"That's an infantile argument, a really simplistic concept that is often used to defend limits and mediocrity," Mr. González Iñárritu said.
Then RRW's infantile arguments seem even more silly.
He dismisses the ontological argument as "infantile" and "dialectical prestidigitation" without quite identifying the defect in its logic, and he is baffled that a philosopher like Russell — "no fool" — could take it seriously.
Would it be pedestrian, in a decidedly liberal way, for me to point out that this sort of argument is not merely infantile, but a sly denigration of the necessary compromises that are at the heart of almost every real policy dispute?
Steven Katz, the author of this argument, notes our "most brutish, infantile, and sensate levels" of experience when we were infants (Katz, 1988, 755).
75 By the later 1930s, during a second wave of anxiety over national efficiency and infantile mortality, a range of medical and statistical arguments were marshalled in support of stillbirth registration in Scotland.
Indeed, there is something infantile in the belief of the constitution-worshippers that the complex political arguments of today can be settled by simple fidelity to a document written in the 18th century.
(#12 Medical professional) When asked for arguments for their opinion in terms of benefits of screening for classic infantile cases, respondents often mentioned shortening the diagnostic delay and subsequent health gain.
Twenty years later, in Die Zukunft einer Illusion (1927; The Future of an Illusion), he elaborated this argument, adding that belief in God is a mythic reproduction of the universal state of infantile helplessness.
It is infantile arrogance.
