Sentence examples for the bad argument from inspiring English sources
If the bad argument has "a semblance of correctness about it in [the] context, and poses a serious obstacle to the realization of the goal of the dialog," then it is a fallacy (2011, 380).[9] Here we find that Walton has relaxed two of the necessary conditions of SDF.
Tim Fernholtz of TAPPED tackles some of the bad arguments against extending unemployment insurance.
Albany, desperate for easy money, buys that bad argument.
And invariably the thrust of these bad arguments is to comfort the comfortable and give them license to afflict the afflicted.
She called the fight a bad argument between two people who cared about each other.
If one of the questions cannot be answered clearly this is an indication that the argument is weak, and answering No to either of the two questions cancels the presumption for the conclusion, i.e., makes the argument into a bad argument from expert opinion.
At the end of Metaphysics IV 3, Aristotle gives a bad argument that the doxastic version rests on the ontological version, confusing belief that not p with not having the belief that p. There is a further problem with this second formulation.
Despite this fact, the same bad arguments forwarded by politicians against suicide barriers are being used by the National Rifle Association to challenge gun regulation.
In 2000, philosopher of science Robert T. Pennock suggested the Raëlian UFO religion as a real-life example of an extraterrestrial intelligent designer view that "make[s] many of the same bad arguments against evolutionary theory as creationists".
Walton volunteers a shorter version of the definition of a fallacy as "a deceptively bad argument that impedes the progress of a dialogue" (1995, 256).
Floating voter-grabbing potential: 6/10 Libertas Duckhouses and moats get a mention as the party chairman, Declan Ganley, talking a little too close to the camera for comfort (has he not heard of personal space?), cites these symbols of the MPs' expenses scandal as a prelude to a "if you think that's bad" argument against the European parliament.
