Sentence examples similar to untenable reasoning from inspiring English sources
Two elements of the reasoning are untenable.
Recently this line of reasoning has become untenable.
The attempted alliance, untenable on both sides, produced much tortured reasoning and led to ruinous schisms.
Mr Jackson has also set about expanding C4's activities beyond broadcasting, reasoning that such a position is untenable in a multimedia digital age.
Berkovitz (1998b, section 3.2, 2002, section 4) argues that Arntzenius's line of reasoning fails because it is based on untenable assumptions about the nature of probabilities in closed causal loops assumptions that are very natural in linear causal situations (where effects do not cause their causes), but untenable in causal loops.
He asserts that it is enough, when proving that any given subject is empty of intrinsic existence, to lead the interlocutor, through reasoning, to the unwelcome consequences (prasaṅga) in their own untenable position; it is not necessary to demonstrate the thesis based on reasoning that presupposes any sort of intrinsic (=autonomous) existence.
In reflecting on the sort of progression Aristotle envisages, some commentators have charged him with an epistemological optimism bordering on the naïve; others contend that it is rather the charge of naïveté which is itself naïve, betraying as it does an unargued and untenable alignment of the necessary and the a priori.[7] Not all rigorous reasoning qualifies as scientific.
These contentions are untenable.
The objection is untenable.
