Sentence examples for unsound principle from inspiring English sources
But Prichard says that there is nothing much wrong with the original reasoning, and that the expanded version is actually worse, since it appeals to an unsound principle, that what is good ought to be.
That is, he repeatedly invokes the alluring, but fundamentally unsound, principle that simple ideas about forecasting and prediction from one field, like economics, can readily be appropriated and applied to completely different fields, without a solid grounding in the principles, assumptions, and methods of those fields.
Although the physics turns out to be unsound, the Principles nevertheless inspired such great thinkers as Robert Boyle (1627 1691), Edmond Halley (1656 1742), and Isaac Newton.
The principle is unsound because the idea of 'ought to be' does not make sense; what makes sense is 'I ought to do it'.
Perhaps the underlying rationale is unsound?
It is unsound because, at most, it is a principle of courtesy that we should reward all those who have benefited us, while reciprocity is supposed to be a principle of justice.
The third argument is unsound: Paul argues that since in God each generic principle (ratio generis) is different from any corresponding specific principle (ratio speciei), therefore specific principles too are different from each other.
In addition, the conclusions of moral psychology can have substantive moral implications, for it may be reasonable to assume that if there are deep reasons that a given type of moral reasoning cannot be practical, then any principles that demand such reasoning are unsound.
Any moral mistake in the reasoning leading to a legal principle might render the conclusion about the principle unsound, and the principle itself thus not legally valid.
In fact, when the data used to support the principles of evidence-based psychiatry are examined, they are unsound.
