Sentence examples for not cogent from inspiring English sources

Mr. Santorum questioned Mr. Gingrich's grip on logic, at one point telling him, "These are not cogent thoughts" and more generally accusing him of grandiosity and instability.

My arguments were not cogent enough to move him, but I'm hoping that other people who might have the same reservation — and there haven't been many — might be swayed.

Leibniz's reasoning to this conclusion does not, however, follow this straightforward path: among other things, this reasoning is not cogent as it stands.

And since we have already found that the One Over Many argument for properties and relations is not cogent, this other argument would presumably be a version of the singular term argument, one that was aimed specifically at establishing the existence of properties and relations.

According to Heyd, comparisons between the wellbeing level a given person has at a world at which that person exists and the wellbeing level that same person has at a world where that person never exists are not cogent and hence we have no basis for the claim that a wrong has been done (Heyd 1992, 30 33).

To the 'single-case' objection often credited to Hume, that the design argument is not cogent since this is the only universe of which we are aware, Reid replies that the objection "is build on the supposition, that our inferring design from the strongest marks of it, is entirely owing to our past experience of having always found these two things conjoined" (EIP 6.6, 511).

Prof Malcolm Gillies, the university's vice-chancellor, has described the claims as "not particularly cogent".

But what he has put onstage is a random assortment of unpleasant symptoms, not a cogent diagnosis.

Prof Malcolm Gillies, the university's vice-chancellor, described the claims as "not particularly cogent" and said it would be disputing them.

(Petrusich) Britney Spears (Tuesday) Of the many barbs lobbed at poor Ms. Spears over the last several years, very few have suggested that she is not — when cogent — a natural-born performer, dancing and squirming with an almost supernatural ease.

Last summer, in a ruling favoring the company, Tellabs, the court said that securities cases could be dismissed if investors did not show "cogent and compelling" evidence of intent to defraud.