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  • image layout frameless Specious an article on "specious", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "specious" You can also: Search for Specious in Misplaced Pages to... 319 bytes (0 words) - 21:37, 25 November 2024
  • image layout frameless Specious reasoning Specious reasoning is a form of argument or analysis that relies on lies, misdirection, or misinterpreted information to make its point. Assertions made... 5 KB (652 words) - 17:49, 19 November 2023
  • image layout frameless Speciously article on "speciously", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "speciously" You can also: Search for Speciously in Misplaced Pages... 326 bytes (0 words) - 17:47, 17 March 2021
  • image layout frameless Speciousness article on "speciousness", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "speciousness" You can also: Search for Speciousness in Misplaced Pages... 328 bytes (0 words) - 20:35, 5 July 2016
  • image layout frameless Specious present The specious present is the time duration wherein one's perceptions are considered to be in the present. The term was coined by E. Robert Kelly, who wrote... 5 KB (658 words) - 04:28, 24 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spurious relationshipSpurious relationship (redirect from Specious correlation) In statistics, a spurious relationship or spurious correlation is a mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are associated but... 14 KB (1,828 words) - 00:44, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Venezuelan tyrannuletVenezuelan tyrannulet (redirect from Specious Tyrannulet) The Venezuelan tyrannulet (Zimmerius petersi) is a species of passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to Venezuela... 9 KB (999 words) - 16:08, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vexillum speciosumVexillum speciosum (redirect from Specious mitre) Vexillum speciosum, common name : the specious mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed... 4 KB (457 words) - 23:16, 11 May 2023
  • image layout frameless Argumentum ad captandum gullibility of the naïve among the listeners or readers, is an unsound, specious argument designed to appeal to the emotions rather than to the mind. It... 2 KB (217 words) - 21:49, 18 September 2023
  • image layout frameless Tu quoque inconsistent with their argument, so that the opponent appears hypocritical. This specious reasoning is a special type of ad hominem attack. The Oxford English Dictionary... 7 KB (797 words) - 20:56, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Asota speciosaAsota speciosa (redirect from Specious tiger) Asota speciosa, the specious tiger, formerly Aganais speciosa, is a moth of the subfamily Aganainae, now regarded as part of the family Erebidae. Formerly... 3 KB (242 words) - 01:54, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Julius CaesarJulius Caesar the descendants of those proscribed by Sulla and recalling all exiles on specious claims of unfair trials. Wilson 2021, p. 309, citing, among others, Caes... 140 KB (16,403 words) - 17:41, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for XmasXmas ISBN 978-0-19-992358-8. O'Conner, Patricia T.; Kellerman, Stewart (2009). Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. New York: Random House... 19 KB (2,090 words) - 15:26, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler to Austria. The Austrian federal chancellor rejected the request on the specious grounds that his service in the German Army made his Austrian citizenship... 170 KB (19,033 words) - 07:59, 5 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Godwin's lawGodwin's law for the Los Angeles Times: "It still serves us as a tool to recognize specious comparisons to Nazism – but also, by contrast, to recognize comparisons... 14 KB (1,289 words) - 14:52, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for TimeTime present is said to be 'specious' in that, unlike the objective present, it is an interval and not a durationless instant. The term specious present was first... 112 KB (13,260 words) - 08:23, 5 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved February 6, 2016. Specious allegations in 1997 by UK journalist Terry O'Hanlon Golden, Andrew (July... 231 KB (23,607 words) - 23:44, 7 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for TotalitarianismTotalitarianism totalitarian instead of authoritarian has been asserted to be a high-sounding but specious excuse for Western self-interest, just as surely as the counterclaim that... 103 KB (11,284 words) - 10:17, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Conor LenihanConor Lenihan (section The Origin of Specious Nonsense) controversy when it emerged that he was to attend the launch of The Origin of Specious Nonsense, an anti-evolution book by John J. May. PZ Myers, on his Pharyngula... 21 KB (1,765 words) - 07:28, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for AcronymAcronym patrol", and "posh" from "port outward, starboard home". With some of these specious expansions, the "belief" that the etymology is acronymic has clearly been... 115 KB (13,526 words) - 18:01, 2 January 2025
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