Noun
incorrect argument
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should not merely try to establish our own opinion dogmatically and historically, and content ourselves with exposing and refuting the misstatements and misarguments of our erring brethren:
to be in doubt whether a paper written in defence of Christian doctrine, has not in itself afforded a handle to infidel misarguments.
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1977, Oak Ridge Bicentennial Lectures: Technology and Society Questioner: Your comments about Arthur Kantorwitz's court and the arguments before or perhaps the misarguments before it reminded me of what we might get in the campaign for election to build an elected scientific priesthood.
The author of the Topics teaches generalities about the forms and ingredients of arguments and misarguments.
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That is a clear misargument of what the law is. Ballot No. 8 in the other case was a cross-over. It was not a write-in.
Those ships would not be built in the U.S. anyway and this is a misnomer and a misargument which is frequently utilized, that we are losing jobs by building those ships overseas.
Serious prosecutorial misargument has occasionally led us to conclude that a pre-Brown jury was misled.
In any event, we have consistently deemed such misargument harmless under similar circumstances, and we do so here. The jury was instructed to consider only those sentencing factors it deemed "applicable."