Sentence examples for is clearly false from inspiring English sources

Legal fiction, a rule assuming as true something that is clearly false.

The S.E.C. accused Jonathan of trying to seem like more than one person when he promoted his stocks, but when you see how and why he did what he did, that is clearly false.

This framework has proven useful to generations of political scientists even though Mr. Downs did not empirically test it and despite the fact that its main prediction, that candidates will take identical positions in elections, is clearly false.

And this is clearly false.

The conditional is clearly false.

but (2) is clearly false.

"It was clearly false," Craig Counsell, the team's player representative, said last week.

Many Americans wandered around saying somehow "we caused this" and that's clearly false.

Claims that "anyone who hasn't done anything wrong has nothing to fear" from this mass surveillance are clearly false.

Myth-busting authors often contrive statements that seem reasonable but on further reflection are so one-sided that they are clearly false.

There are other instances of what Paul Krugman calls, in another context, zombie arguments, intended to defend the violence — arguments that are clearly false but impossible to kill off, that attempt to justify both fighting and, bizarrely, violence that doesn't stem directly from fights.