Sentence examples for radical error from inspiring English sources

"There is a radical error, I think, in the usual mode of constructing a story," Poe writes in "The Philosophy of Composition," a great, mad essay from which young scribblers may still profit.

This is a consequence of the view which Davidson embraced (see Davidson 1974); but one might also reasonably think that radical disagreement, as well as radical error, are possible, and hence that any theory, like Davidson's, which implies that they are impossible must be mistaken (see Chapter 13 of Soames (2003) for discussion).

But Gnosticism, even in its pre-scientific forms, is a radical error.

There is no radical illusion, error or mistake in color perception (only commonplace illusions): we perceive objects to have the colors that they really have.

The proprioceptive-change theory, however, does not imply such radical introspective error.

Cellular DNA is constantly threatened by genotoxic events arising from cellular metabolisms (e.g., free oxygen radicals, replication errors) and induced by environmental factors (e.g., ionizing and UV radiations, chemicals).

First, a strong correlation is found between the errors of maximum H radical and the errors in prediction of laminar flame speeds.

And thus, Naess concludes, the program of a pure logic as a system of apodictic knowledge is "to be dismissed … As soon as a science is said to be science of or about something, there is a radical risk of error …" (Naess 1954, 73).

A typing error on a radical newsletter her flatmate received in the post gave her the idea.

At 5 years, overall survival was 44% (standard error = 2.9%) for radical radiotherapy; 55% (standard error = 2.6%) for radical chemoradiotherapy and 71% (standard error = 3.3%) for postoperative radiotherapy (Fig. 1a).

"If you said you were sorry you were a radical and had seen the errors of your ways, you were let off," Mr. Polonsky said in an interview in 1968.