(a.) Ignorant or negligent of the rules of logic or correct reasoning; as, an illogical disputant; contrary of the rules of logic or sound reasoning; as, an illogical inference.
Example Sentences:
(1) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(2) There is a perfectly illogical explanation for it; polio drops are meant to make us impotent and these programmes are run by the same people who managed to locate Osama bin Laden by running another scam vaccination campaign.
(3) The sequester is about as illogical process as you could possibly conceive."
(4) She has also slammed the “illogical and outright offensive” language used by those against same-sex marriage.
(5) The defence secretary, Michael Fallon, said in July that there was “an illogicality” about striking Isis targets in Iraq but not in Syria.
(6) Several factors account for the relative ineffectiveness of family planning: some women abandon contraceptive methods for illogical reasons, especially after a traumatic event in their lives; sex education is still often insufficient; ignorance causes excessive fear of possible or imagined effects of contraceptives; part of the population is simply apathetic and irresponsible; finally, the availability of abortion may be a factor, although it is the worst method of birth control.
(7) Evidence that depressive thinking is especially inaccurate or illogical, however, is weak.
(8) But does he regret missing out on any parts because they seemed illogical when he read the script?
(9) The sum of illogical thinking and loose associations was a reliable kappa = 0.77), sensitive (79%), and specific (90%) indicator of schizophrenia in this sample.
(10) On the other hand, the discrepancies and absurdities, appearing again and again in his poetic products, are due to his habit of taking dream and its illogical connections as a model.
(11) But it's a little illogical that, for offences under section 55 of the Data Protection Act (which might involve even more serious breaches of privacy) there is a public interest defence.
(12) It's illogical to think that people of a shared sexuality would also share politics.
(13) "It would be absolutely illogical for them not to do it," he said.
(14) Of these patients, 119 (78%) had been given psychotropic drugs (usually benzodiazepines), 81 (53%) obtained them on repeat prescription, and 47 (31%) had been prescribed multiple psychotropic drugs, often in seemingly illogical combinations.
(15) For very young spines posterior fusion is both illogical and harmful and it is essential that the growth of the front of the spine be arrested by multiple discectomy and end-plate excision.
(16) The author contends that the chaotic and illogical funding system for mental health services is primarily responsible for failure of the widespread implementation of demonstrably effective programs.
(17) Such an ill-informed and illogical standpoint is a worrying sign of ideologically driven obtuseness.
(18) I also love how she falls for Delphine: it's stupid and illogical but I love that."
(19) It appears that the NLRB's lack of familiarity with the health care industry and particularly with the day-to-day functioning of a hospital led it to search for touchstones such as the status of an RN or the certification of technicians that would enable it to make easy but illogical distinctions.
(20) Paris climate deal might just be enough to start turning the tide on global warming | Lenore Taylor Read more Jean Palutikof, who is director of national climate change adaptation research facility at Griffith University, said the CSIRO strategy of focusing on how Asutralia should adapt to and mitigate climate change, without studying what those changes were, was illogical.
Unsound
Definition:
(a.) Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased.
Example Sentences:
(1) One official wrote: "An article like this would be a heaven-sent opportunity to those who wish to get maximum publicity out of this incident to argue that the coroner was biased and for this reason the inquest was unsound."
(2) They compare dose estimates calculated by planning programs to actual doses measured in phantoms, so they cannot distinguish programming errors from measurement errors or physical unsoundness of the beam model.
(3) More lambs died and more lamb deaths were due to starvation in a group with unsound udders than in a sound udder group.
(4) This position depends on two crucial arguments that we believe are unsound: first, that gestures "are synchronized with linguistic units in speech" and, second, that gestures "have semantic and pragmatic functions that parallel those of speech."
(5) He favoured ambitious, but often unsound, development projects, and schemes to relocate millions of landless peasants and open up virgin forests paved the way for the country's current environmental crisis.
(6) It was made methodologically unsound by its employment for the naming of Nissl stained soma classes before the identity of individual somas with the physiological entities can be demonstrated.
(7) The front and hind feet from a total of 64 boars, 86 sows and 107 barrows were radiographed after necropsy to study the nature of inequalities in digits and their relation to nutrition and structural unsoundness in swine.
(8) Of the seven horses with category 2 lesions, four were training or racing, two were unsound, and one was still convalescing at the time of follow-up.
(9) JP Morgan has agreed to pay about $920m in penalties to US and UK regulators over the "unsafe and unsound practices" that led to its $6.2bn London Whale losses last year.
(10) Structured interviews conducted with 162 community-residing older adults assessed social control (direct attempts by other to influence participants' health practices and the existence of significant role obligations to others), health risk taking (medication misuse, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and the overall level of unsound health practices), psychological functioning (depression, loneliness, and self-esteem), and interpersonal satisfaction (satisfaction with friends and family members).
(11) A total of 1,234 ewe lambs, representing nine breed groups, were first exposed to breeding at 7 mo of age and subsequently retained with no artificial culling, except for debilitating unsoundness, through 7 yr of production.
(12) Judge Roger Thomas QC described Hutton, arguably mentally unsound, as "wicked".
(13) A New Declaration of Independence were arguing that "monopoly capitalism is morally ugly as well as economically unsound," that in America "the large majority should be able – in accordance with the tenets of the 'American dream' … to count on living in an atmosphere of equality, in a world which puts relatively few barriers between man and man."
(14) This study revealed that certain (otherwise common and nutritionally unsound) food choices were not a major part of the subjects' habits, and could be given low priority in educational messages.
(15) The basic premise of the "psychological" explanation, that Elizabeth was physically capable of bearing children is unsound for a number of reasons.
(16) If we can make it environmentally friendly, if we can make it affordable and if we can make it safe, then in time your children and my grandchildren will all have the chance to go to space.” To critics who argue that firing rockets to take sightseers up into the darkness is environmentally unsound and unnecessary, Branson says that the passengers on his first space flights will account for an amount of carbon “not dissimilar to an upper-class seat flying from London to New York and back”, and that over the next few years they believe they can make the flights “as near as dammit carbon neutral”.
(17) is theoretically unsound, as the CPK appearance function may be significantly different from zero and yet CPK vs time may still be monoexponential.
(18) The conventional separation of modes of spread as haematogenous and lymphatic seems artificial and physiologically unsound, as tumour cells tend to recycle from one system to another.
(19) Although screening elderly people for thyroid disease is economically unsound, the physician should maintain a high index of suspicion of its presence.
(20) Surgical correction of the flexible acquired flatfoot has long been subject to procedures based on an unsound understanding of the true pathomechanics of the deformity.