spurious reason
false, untrue reason
TRANSLATION
spurious = falsch, unecht, Pseudo..., Schein..., nachgemacht, gefälscht, unehelich
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Spurious Reason
While dining at Trinity College, Cambridge, one evening, the great logician Bertrand Russell claimed that any argument could be proven from the false premise that 1+1=1.
Russell was promptly challenged. "If 1+1=1, prove that you're the Pope." He thought for a moment before proceeding: "I am one, the Pope is one," he declared. "Therefore, the Pope and I are one."
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, Third Earl (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician, social critic and writer, Nobel Prize recipient (Literature, 1950) noted for his profound role in the development of symbolic logic and 20th-century analytic philosophy, and for such works as his Autobiography and Principia Mathematica (written with Alfred North Whitehead, 1910-13)
While dining at Trinity College, Cambridge, one evening, the great logician Bertrand Russell claimed that any argument could be proven from the false premise that 1+1=1.
Russell was promptly challenged. "If 1+1=1, prove that you're the Pope." He thought for a moment before proceeding: "I am one, the Pope is one," he declared. "Therefore, the Pope and I are one."
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, Third Earl (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician, social critic and writer, Nobel Prize recipient (Literature, 1950) noted for his profound role in the development of symbolic logic and 20th-century analytic philosophy, and for such works as his Autobiography and Principia Mathematica (written with Alfred North Whitehead, 1910-13)
Did you
know?
Spurious means false or inauthentic.
For example, a spurious quotation would be one that doesn't come from the source claimed.
Spurious can also mean plausible but false; illegitimate. Example: "She rejected his spurious arguments knowing that he had not read the background materials."
This adjective comes from the Latin word spurius (illegitimate). It was first seen in English in the early 1600s.
For example, a spurious quotation would be one that doesn't come from the source claimed.
Spurious can also mean plausible but false; illegitimate. Example: "She rejected his spurious arguments knowing that he had not read the background materials."
This adjective comes from the Latin word spurius (illegitimate). It was first seen in English in the early 1600s.
