Word: unwarrantedness
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There is a third method of dealing with examination questions—that is by the use of an overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion...
In the long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative...
BRITAIN Members' Benefits British legislators voted to allow Sinn Fein's four Members of Parliament to claim expense payments and office space even though the republicans cannot take their seats in the House of Commons because they refuse to swear allegiance to the Queen. The Conservatives and Northern Ireland's...
Whether abortion itself is right or wrong, two wrongs never make a right. Sending letters filled with white powder is a terrorist act in the current environment, promoting unwarranted fear and disrupting a larger, critical national security investigation.
Pro-life extremists fear that the more abortion is made available, the less time women will take to consider all the options they have available. However, their concern is unwarranted. The decision to have an abortion is difficult to make, but it is a choice women ultimately have to make...