Sentence examples for a basic fallacy from inspiring English sources

It's a basic fallacy that her death is what she was all about, and people read that into the photographs.

Event A happened, and event B followed; thus, A caused B. It is a basic fallacy in logic, sometimes referred to as correlation not causation.

Your discussion of the apparently long-observed correlation between poetry and morbidity (Arts & Ideas, April 24) commits a basic fallacy by assuming that the former must somehow be causing the latter.

It should be pointed out that there is a basic fallacy in Richard Cohen's analogies to American "distaste for the regime in the Kremlin" or for the Ayatollah Khomeini.

But the hope that the Middle Eastern subjects of the former British and French Empires would accept the American Revolution as a model for their own anti-imperialist struggle rested on a basic fallacy that Arab writers were quick to point out.

"There is a basic fallacy underlying the majority's actions and rhetoric today: the assumption of what is best for broadband providers is best for America.

Actually, as Miles Kimball points out, he's committing a basic microeconomic fallacy — a fallacy you usually identify with Econ 101 freshmen early in the semester (and as it happens the same fallacy committed by Rajan).

Romney's use of the basic fallacy on display here goes well beyond this one claim about women.

The basic fallacy of today's decision is its mistaken view that the Contract Clause protects all contract-based expectations, including that of an employer that his obligations to his employees will not be legislatively enlarged beyond those explicitly provided in his pension plan.

To him the basic fallacy was the very assumption with which Keynes had started out: the assumption that the healthy, the "normal," economy is an economy in static equilibrium.

The strange outcome this year is due to the primary system's basic fallacy: that it represents the public.