Sentence examples for strictly false from inspiring English sources

Not only is the major premise of the animation false (trend does not determine future value or trend – all trends by nature refer to the past and may not refer to the future) but the intended climate message is, if not strictly false, biased and misleading.

A Hellenistic geographer said with some impatience of the Plataeans that they had nothing to say for themselves except that they were colonists of the Athenians (strictly false, but an illuminating exaggeration) and that the Persians were defeated on Plataean soil.

This suggestion raises the specter of an 'error theory' of music's expressivity, that is, a theory that all claims of emotional expressivity in music are strictly false.

This unrealistic example shows how determinism could be strictly false, and yet the world be deterministic enough for our concerns about free action to be unchanged.

The claims of commonsense could then be downgraded to being strictly false but still explicable given the truth of the paraphrase, or as true but only according to the 'tacit fiction' of decomposition, which is the 'fiction' that the world decomposes into proper parts.

If this is simply the way we unavoidably think about transcendental affection, because we can give positive content to this thought only by employing the concept of a cause, while it is nevertheless strictly false that things in themselves affect us causally, then it seems not only that we are ignorant of how things in themselves really affect us.

Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel advocate conventionalism about property in The Myth of Ownership (2002), a book whose title suggests that claims about property rights are, strictly speaking, false.

This goes with an at least partial account of how we are to treat paradigmatically fictional claims: that they are, literally and strictly speaking, false.

As became clear in section 2.2, while fictionalists think that sentences like '2 + 2 = 4' are strictly speaking false, they nonetheless think they're "correct" in some sense of the term.

We are pulled in two directions by this case it is because what Brown has said is literally true but what he intended to communicate was, strictly speaking, false.

By the middle of the twentieth century, however, it was clear that natural science postulated a very odd world behind the phenomena, one rather remote from our everyday experience, one which renders many of our commonsense beliefs, as well as previous scientific theories, strictly speaking, false.