Indeed, if the consequences of policy or institutional changes are virtually unknowable, then even arguing from a patently false theory may not matter much.
In the surprise exam paradox, it seems to be patently clear that there can be a surprise exam.
It is patently clear that the drive for clinical research is deeply linked to market forces.
Yet to suppose that drugs can contribute any sort of public health answer to osteoarthritis is patently absurd.
While not everyone may find this scenario intellectually appealing, it is not patently incoherent.
Near it is a further small piece of country that each year has been burned rather patently and last year was burned not at all.
For instance practical advocacy does not restrict us to making true claims and indeed it is likely to suggest many patently false claims.
Consider, however, the following patently good state of affairs : donating money to a children's hospital.
