Word: speciousness
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...half-page advertisement in yesterday's Crimson by the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention seems to us a remarkable example of specious reasoning. Yet we printed this advertisement, and we shall continue to print any advertisement which those who disagree with us wish to place. At this time especially we must give the dissenters every opportunity to be heard, and we should have sufficient confidence in the justice of our cause to risk exposure to criticism...
Taylor continued by warning against implicit faith in the democratic process by saying that, "The specious argument that a democracy should put unlimited trust in its government does not hold water" because one can not always be sure that the elected representative will act for the best interest of the people at large...
...analyzing an argument you feel to be specious, always look for the hidden major premise." Never, since he began popularizing it in his classes at Yale 70 years ago, has William Graham Sumner's pregnant rule of thumb been more essential to straight national thinking than at the present moment...
...This specious scene, enacted in Washington's Mayflower Hotel, marked the end of the "captive" coal-mine strike. For five days, while almost 53,000 miners had stayed away from their jobs in obedience to their chief, the U.S. had howled its in dignation and called John Lewis anything but "cooperative...
...clear a path for him to the speaker's table. He warned Japan that, while Britain had no desire to pick a quarrel, she would not let her interests in the Far East be set aside. He warned the U.S. that Hitler would soon make a specious peace offer, which Britain would reject ("For sheer efficiency as a liar, Hitler stands alone in history...