Sentence examples for wrong arguments from inspiring English sources
It's one thing to make shaky or even demonstrably wrong arguments.
The Labour grandee, now 96, told The Independent: "I disliked him intensely when we were fighting, because I felt he was raising the wrong issues and using the wrong arguments.
Another intellectual you spoke with, André Glucksmann, says that America lost the case for war in Iraq with the French because it made the wrong arguments — that the U.S. should have argued its case on purely humanitarian grounds instead of on the basis of weapons of mass destruction.
(Do these arguments sound familiar? That's because they are the exact same wrong arguments made in the order that would eliminate net neutrality).
However, these criticisms have had little effect on the practice of physicians and leave us with a puzzle: why do highly educated individuals embrace such transparently wrong arguments to justify their paternalistic behavior?
It is the wrong argument to be having.
But in an indication of how easily matters could still go wrong, argument persisted about control of the disputed strategic hub of Debaltseve, where fighting continued on Thursday.
The instruction at Socrates' academy, the Phrontisterion ("Thinking Shop"), which consists of making a wrong argument sound right, enables Strepsiades' son to defend the beating of his own father.
"I'm a left-wing guy," he says, "and a vegetarian because I don't want to kill animals -- you can't play the 'he's right-wing so he's wrong' argument".
It's the wrong argument for any moment, but it's especially perverse in this one, when so many powerful men, including Simmons, have been revealed as venal megalomaniacs.
And in fact the argument that foreigners will reduce their lending to us, sending rates higher, and shrinking the economy even though we have our own currency and monetary policy is, when you think about it, more or less isomorphic to the famously wrong argument that fiscal expansion is contractionary, because it will drive up interest rates.
