Sentence examples for spurious knowledge from inspiring English sources

He portrays humanity as incapable of understanding the world without depending on the spurious knowledge and shallow opinions of others.

Thinkers like Coleridge (or Marx) often claim that they have special cognitive means, e.g., rational intuition or dialectics, for gaining knowledge of social wholes, and this (spurious) knowledge is then cited as grounds for special social policy recommendations.

Even medical students, parents and teachers of children with autism have demonstrated spurious knowledge about autism [ 17, 18].

However, newspapers say it will be abused by the rich and powerful to stifle the press and taken advantage of by lawyers pursuing spurious claims in the knowledge they will still be paid.

To the best of my knowledge, the "argument from spurious similarity" was first explicitly described by Daisie and Michael Radner in their slim but influential volume, Science and Unreason.

It is not excluded that the confidence related to nutrition knowledge may disguise a spurious relation with label use.

We develop a general tool, GeneScissors, which exploits machine learning techniques guided by biological knowledge to detect and correct spurious transcriptome inference by existing RNA-seq analysis methods.

But in contrast to Democritus, who had followed the deductive route of the intellect, considering the knowledge of the senses to be spurious, Epicurus, following an inductive route, assigned truth to sensation and reduced the intellect to it.

With regard to the Sallas loans, a spokesman for Mr. Vgenopoulos, said in an e-mail that at the time "Mr. Vgenopoulos was vice chairman of the bank and had no involvement or knowledge of these alleged and totally spurious transactions".

Differentiation of true and spurious associations was not possible without a priori knowledge of the candidate genes, based on re-sequencing.

For example, the Vohs Schooler Baumeister studies all appear to be linked by a fundamental methodological error that suggests that – irrespective of the separate question of suppressing knowledge – their putative findings may be spurious.