speciousness

specious | American Dictionary

specious
adjective
 fmlus/ˈspi·ʃəs/
seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false:
a specious distinction
His whole argument is specious.

Examples of specious

specious
It confers on the various perspectives on empathy only a specious nominal unity.
Ethnic groups were variously typecast by schemes of physical, psychological, and cultural profiling, as complex as they were specious.
As most of the preceding articles note, appeal to the best interests of the nonconsenting donor child is morally specious at best.
However, the explanations suggested by conscious experience can easily be shown to be specious in examples such as the ones cited above.
Accepting the complete-life perspective does not, of course, do more than dispose of the more specious case against seniority privileges.
But if they contrast in no language, the distinction is probably specious.
Suppose that these three notes are played so that only two occur in a single specious present.
His cynicism was in part a reaction to his parents' specious cultural standards.
It may help learners speak several phrases so as to give them a specious sense of fulfillment and achievement.
There will be no more hollow virtues, no more specious and splendid crimes.
Although inter-alter access doesn't force us to reject the non-perspectival thesis, we might have to reject it in order to account for the specious present.
The supposed importance of former felons being allowed to vote is specious, although their chapter overall is important and intriguing.
It is important to understand that analogical reasoning, whatever its heuristic usefulness, is a specious form of reasoning.
This account seems to entail that co-consciousness is relativized to a particular specious present.
Instead, he had become the 'most specious of modern political charlatans'.
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