scholarly journals Concerning an Article by Ehl et al.: False Premise Leads to False Conclusions

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Arthur Georges ◽  
Clare E. Holleley ◽  
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
Keyword(s):  
False Premise

A Farewell to Hume

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Steane
Keyword(s):  
David Hume ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Richard Dawkins ◽  
False Premise

A well-known argument of David Hume is presented and refuted. The argument concerns the notion that the natural world may be self-contained, for all we know, and religious claims are superfluous. This is essentially the position also advocated by Richard Dawkins, in slightly different terms. These arguments are presented, and then it is explained that they fail, owing to what amounts to a false premise. This is subtle because the false premise is in the very way the discussion is framed. If one assumes that when we are talking about God we are talking about abstract intellectual tools, then one goes wrong. Various witnesses are invoked to show that thoughtful religious language operates differently.

The false premise of partition1

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-35
Author(s):  
Reece Jones
Keyword(s):  
False Premise

scholarly journals Harmonisation of Chalk and Cheese

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Davenport
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
West Coast ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
The West ◽  
East And West ◽  
False Premise

This is a response to Towards Harmonisation of the Construction Industry Security of Payment Legislation: A consideration of the success afforded by the East and West Coast Models in Australia by Jeremy Coggins, Robert Fenwick Elliott and Matthew Bell. Towards Harmonisation is based upon the false premise that the objectives of the East Coast and West Coast models are the same. They are chalk and cheese. Each serves a valuable purpose. Each jurisdiction needs both models.  A model for a dual process incorporating both the East Coast and the West Coast models will be found in Davenport (2007).

The Pakingtons of Harvington

1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-215
Author(s):  
Lionel ◽  
Veronica Anderton Webster
Keyword(s):  
Family Tree ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Inaccurate Information ◽  
The Family ◽  
Manor House ◽  
False Premise

Harvington Hall, the moated red-brick manor-house near Chaddesley Corbett in Worcestershire, is well known for the exceptional number and ingenuity of its hiding-holes; and it is not unreasonable to deduce from the fortunes and religious adherence of the Pakingtons (who owned it during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) some explanation of the unusual plan of the Hall itself. But until recently it was stated categorically that the Pakingtons were all, in Foley's phrase, 'rigid protestant' Opinion as to the date and design of the building was misled by this false premise; some confusion of ideas ensued, and doubt was even cast on the authenticity of the hides. The story was further complicated by the infiltration of legend and of inaccurate information copied by one writer from another, as well as by a reluctance, until modern times, to record Catholic connections. The Worcestershire historian Nash, for instance, omits this branch from the family tree, no doubt in deference to the Pakingtons of Westwood, who were among his patrons and who by then were protestant.

Paracetamol research was based on false premise

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 33-33
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Brandon
Keyword(s):  
False Premise

Lineation in Moinian and Lewisian Rocks of the Northern Highlands of Scotland

1949 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 279-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. C. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
False Premise ◽  
Northern Highlands

AbstractIt has recently been reaffirmed, on the basis of evidence derived from published maps, that in the Moine schists the south-easterly plunging lineation appears to increase in intensity as the Moine thrust area is approached. This statement is not in accordance with facts observable in the field and is a false premise on which to base the conclusion that thrusting and lineation are related. A further fact of vital significance in relation to such a conclusion is the widespread development of a similar lineation, plunging south-easterly and likewise expressive of a girdle fabric, in unmoved Lewisian rocks of the foreland.

scholarly journals A commentary on a flawed public health investigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (11) ◽  
pp. 500-502
Author(s):  
John Hardie
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Health Unit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Dental Patients ◽  
Dental Origin ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Realistic Assessment ◽  
Dental Practices ◽  
False Premise

The possibility of hepatitis C being transmitted between dental patients was the genesis of an extensive and expensive look-back investigation conducted by an Ontario Public Health Unit. This investigation was performed with a minimal knowledge of nosocomial infections of dental origin, an enthusiastic reliance on untested checklist indicators and an absence of any of the criteria justifying such an investigation. As a consequence, the entire exercise was based on the false premise that an infection control lapse had occurred. This commentary will address these flaws, and other aspects of the Public Health Unit’s response that detracted from its credibility. The provision of a realistic assessment of disease transmission in dentistry should result in Public Health Units conducting informed and mutually beneficial inspections of dental practices.

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