Sentence examples for Fallacious reasoning from inspiring English sources

This is fallacious reasoning.

And his logic can seem like circular — to the point of fallacious — reasoning.

In it he sought to teach students how to use logical principles to spot correct or fallacious reasoning in a wide variety of contemporary political and social debates.

The boy, serious rather than arrogant, proceeds to engage her in a debate about John Stuart Mill and then finds her guilty of fallacious reasoning.

He was his own invention, formed in the vacuum of a broken family, seduced by an ideal of militant self-control, tutored only in the infallible but utterly fallacious reasoning of outcasts devoted to overturning the government in pursuit of rights they already possessed.

But this is fallacious reasoning, as the context-dependence of genetic explanations shows.

We went on and on at length, strengthening our points, using anecdotes, pulling out the nonfiction stops to prove the other's reasoning fallacious, a veteran lawyer and a potential novice going at it.

But this reasoning is fallacious.

Gaunilo concludes that Anselm's reasoning is fallacious.

This step has been claimed by numerous philosophers to be a fallacious step in deductive reasoning.

If, however, causal reasoning were fallacious, the principle of the uniformity of nature might well be among its principles.