Sentence examples for * the fallacious from inspiring English sources

Recognize fallacies and determine if the fallacious arguments are relevant for the science content.

Voegelin, who had a weakness for odd coinages, called this "the fallacious immanentization of the Christian eschaton" — Heaven on earth, achieved through "political religion".

As in Maine, opponents of marriage equality are trying to make the fallacious argument that marriage equality would somehow harm heterosexual couples.

A worthy alternative floated a couple of years ago, based on the fallacious premise that non-participation is something to be relished.

This condition is troublesome as it is based on the fallacious argument that the US receives a continuous stream of unauthorized Mexican migrants.

One of his examples is the fallacious inference from (1) "Coriscus is different from Socrates" (i.e., Coriscus is not Socrates) and (2) "Socrates is a man" to (3) "Coriscus is different from a man" (i.e., Coriscus is not a man).

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They also appear to be based on the same fallacious assumptions, notably that low-density development is inherently less efficient or environmentally sustainable than high-density settlement.

(In a new twist on the usual fallacious analogies that liken household finances to national budgets, this led people to suggest that if Cameron couldn't look after his daughter, he surely couldn't look after a country).

Kant's subsequent efforts are thus directed towards demonstrating the paralogistic (fallacious) nature of the arguments about the soul.

The WSJ piece itself isn't that interesting, except insofar as the utterly fallacious comparison of the bank to Fannie and Freddie Mae reveals something about current conservative pathologies.