Sentence examples for untenable theory from inspiring English sources

This is an untenable theory.

Such an argument, however, gives it a pronounced contemporary flavour, so that both Phenomenologists and Analytical philosophers have been much exercised by it, often taking as their starting point the clearly untenable theory of Croce.

While it is nice that they are beginning to concede the importance of lipids, this has every appearance of a desperate attempt to save a totally untenable hypothesis from fatal criticism, rather than a well-thought out theory.

Additional data and passage of time proved the theory untenable.

Measurements and projections of pressure and temperature led to the conclusion that the Curie point (temperature at which magnetic properties are lost) of all known magnetic compounds is exceeded 10 to 40 km (6 to 25 miles) below the surface; this conclusion left the lodestone and bar-magnetic theories untenable.

Some critics feel that the unrealistic nature of its assumptions makes marginal-productivity theory completely untenable.

Correct: Now that all the facts have been revealed, that theory is untenable.

According to Weyl (1924b) A: The concept of relative motion of several isolated bodies with respect to each other is as untenable according to the theory of general relativity as is the concept of absolute motion of a single body.

But their theories are untenable.

Scientific inquiry requires considerable humility and the willingness to admit that your latest theory may be untenable in light of later findings.

Only those who hold a literal interpretation of the Bible are likely to find the theory of evolution untenable.