counterevidence

It was kind of galling to be presented with so much counterevidence."

Methodically, she adduces counterevidence and then concludes with vindicating explanations.

And he may have been told something on "good authority" which was not true and yet which did not find counterevidence in the banks.

The materials then are searched for counterevidence and subsidiary or branching paths are laid out.

Significantly, he adduces not a jot of counterevidence for his novel claim that only "some Germans" opposed Kristallnacht.

"Another piece of counterevidence is the foreign markets have been very volatile and program trading is not really used in the foreign markets," Mr. Black said.

Furthermore, "wishful thinking" is distinguished from self-deception in that the self-deceivers recognize evidence against their self-deceptive belief or possess, without recognizing, greater counterevidence than wishful thinkers.

Posner points out that MacKinnon "ignores extensive counterevidence" to her claim that pornography causes harm, namely from studies in Denmark and Japan.

Others cite the presence of descended larynges in non-linguistic animals, as well as the ubiquity of nonverbal communication and language among humans, as counterevidence against this claim.

As counterevidence against the "French origin" theory, it is stipulated that there are many signs that the uvular R existed in certain German dialects long before the 17th century.

"But the counterevidence to that is, our biology as a species really hasn't changed in decades and centuries, and yet obesity rates have dramatically increased in the last 15 years," he said.

In fact it is also true that a number of Russian peasants fled from their far brutal lords to settle in liberal Poland, which might stand out as example of counterevidence to the "Hell for the Peasants" claim.

The book, a series of literary improvisations on jazz history, provides a bit of counterevidence to Mr. Sudhalter's view that jazz fiction is best written by jazz musicians, since the author is not, to my knowledge, a professional musician.

This view fails to take note of the skinhead march in Vicenza, the showy celebration of Mussolini's birthday and the proposal (quickly withdrawn) by new Government ministers to rescind the Constitution's ban on Fascism - among other recent counterevidence.

Special pleading (also known as stacking the deck, ignoring the counterevidence, slanting, and one-sided assessment) is a form of spurious argument where a position in a dispute introduces favourable details or excludes unfavourable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations.