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Fallacious
adjective
Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
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(However, see Gill (1996, 81, n. 134), who contends that D1A12 and D1A13 are fallacious).) D1A9 seems to commit the fallacy of equivocation (see Rickless (2007, 121 123).
As stated, this argument is clearly a fallacious employment of Leibniz' Law (what is called the masked man fallacy).
Medical schools, still under the spell of Darwinism, wanted full corpses and skeletons to compare with the Anglo Saxon dead, so they might reinforce the fallacious orthodoxy that each race represented a distinct evolutionary phase.
In some ways, this is fallacious and unfair.
To think that Singapore would lose any of its hard-won economic development if its citizens enjoyed more freedom of expression is fallacious.
It is fallacious to argue that because no one is storming the castle, no real injustice exists.
Time Warner discovered that when CNN put out its fallacious "Tailwind" story claiming that America used nerve gas in Vietnam.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] unleashed by KatrinaSIR – Your fallacious accusation that after Hurricane Katrina America abandoned the dispossessed and didn't bring succour to her people at their greatest time of need would be funny if it wasn't such a sad misconception so far from the truth ("The shaming of America", September 10th).
That the living ever dwell at the frontier of time seems to encourage a fallacious sense that the hour is getting late.
Only if they finance speculation in share or bond markets will inflation result.Mr Ahamed describes the theory, held by many bankers before the First World War, as "clearly fallacious".
Buy-backs enhance earnings per share, thereby boosting the value of executive options.There is a widespread but fallacious belief that the repurchases are the result of improved corporate balance-sheets.
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