There is a pervasive and fallacious idea that the tech sector, which is SF's Hollywood, is a meritocracy, which implies that individuals — by virtue or smarts or gumption — do control their place in it and the world.
Darwin's critics believed, for example, that species inevitably progress toward more and more complex forms, a fashionable yet fallacious idea of the mid-19th century.
Back in Britain, we look forward to the end of the Blair era signalling an end to the fallacious idea that the solutions to the intractable problems of the current time - inequality, social disengagement, environmental disaster - are to be found through prayer or divine intervention, rather than in the grubby, compromised human world of real democratic politics and evidence-based argument.
Before launching his campaign, in June, 2015, he had been a Democrat (for most of his life), a potential Reform Party candidate (during a brief flirtation with Presidential politics, in 2000), and, starting in 2011, a kind of conservative gadfly, obsessed with the fallacious idea that Obama was not born in America.
The tragedy is that the years of austerity have not allowed that, and may even have fostered the fallacious idea that Greece's problems are about bad debts and busted banks.
Alas, the Fed;and all too many economists and policymakers;is still chained to the fallacious idea that prosperity causes inflation.
As stated, this argument is clearly a fallacious employment of Leibniz' Law (what is called the masked man fallacy).
This is a fallacious argument.
This is a fallacious measure.
And that's a fallacious assumption".
