Sentence examples for provocative error from inspiring English sources

In light of this, philosophers may be wont to diagnose some constructionist talk as a careless (or even an intentionally provocative) error of talking about the object of construction using a representation when one should be mentioning it (thereby expressing a view about the referent of the representation rather than the representation itself).

Therefore, individual TLS polymerases may play distinctive roles, i.e., protective (error-free), provocative (error-prone), or neutral, in mutagenesis induced by each specific DNA lesion in cells.

The provocation proved provocative.

His provocative book identifies four areas of "systematic error" by voters, all related to economics.

Because of an editing error, a Fashion page article on Tuesday about department stores' provocative displays of lingerie referred incorrectly to the director of marketing for the H.&.M chain in the United States.

"It's easy to look at these women and see what they did wrong, tally up their sins and errors," writes Doyle in the preface of Trainwreck: "Insensitive, provocative, promiscuous, off-the-wagon, crazy".

According to the federal court's ruling, the conduct was not covered by the section 18D exemption for making fair comment in good faith, because the articles "contained errors of fact, distortions of the truth and inflammatory and provocative language".

There are too many silly errors of fact, and it is frustrating to read a provocative statement characterizing the World Trade Center cleanup without a source citation.

As one of the most provocative sessions of the symposium, Dr Beverley Orser introduced the scope of medical errors by describing the high human and medical cost of errors.

That's the conclusion of a provocative analysis published today in part by economists who based it on past studies of error rates in biomedical studies.

Despite some flaws (and some editing errors in the labels), the new Ripley's is so entertaining and provocative that it's worth special attention.