illogicality
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By the end of the show, the queen, Morgan said, “is wrestling with the illogicality of the system” that required such duty of her.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
And yet, this accusation of illogicality is only applied to AAVE, and never to other languages with negative concord.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2018
But the articles kick-started pressure to reform, so the age of consent was raised, while, with a certain illogicality, the minimum age of marriage for girls remained 12 until 1929.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2012
I argued a couple of weeks ago that there is a profound illogicality at the heart of this policy.
From Time ● Apr. 23, 2011
There are often humorous passages, for the Altrurians are inextinguishably amused by our illogicality, and what they call the perpetual non sequiturs of our lives and laws.
From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by Howells, William Dean
And although our tax system is manifestly full of anomalies and illogicalities, when it comes to pensions specifically, economists often share a broad vision of what a fiscally neutral tax system should try to do.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
I also wonder whether the Budget will try to tidy up the illogicalities of the system, or simply be about raising as much as possible?
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
He wrote: “The prophecy may be hazarded that we shall conform in time, one word in -re after another changing to -er; but we prefer in England to break with our illogicalities slowly.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2019
He would also have been wise to quick-march past a lot of the story's inherent illogicalities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anomalies do matter very much, and do a great deal of harm; abstract illogicalities do matter a great deal, and do a great deal of harm.
From All Things Considered by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
