The phrase "a fallacy at the" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in discussions about logical reasoning or argumentation, typically followed by a specific location or context where the fallacy occurs.
Example: "The speaker committed a fallacy at the heart of their argument, undermining their credibility."
Alternatives: "a fallacy in the" or "a fallacy within the".
There is a fallacy at the core of this line of thinking – can scientists really be held responsible for what is done with their ideas when they are misunderstood and corrupted by groups such as the Nazis?
This quality endows Bruno with the potential to be Baron Cohen's most provocative statement; unfortunately, however, Bruno limits its target to American homophobia, and while the events of the film do indeed expose prejudice toward homosexuals, they also reveal a fallacy at the heart of Baron Cohen's work: Baron Cohen has some prejudices of his own.
Re "U.S. Struggles to Tutor Iraqis in Rule of Law, but Results Are Mixed Amid Violence" (news article, Feb. 16): The central fallacy at the heart of the Bush administration's Iraq adventure is that well-meaning Americans can show the Iraqis how to organize their society, and this tutelage can proceed under the watchful eyes of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers and private contractors.
Wanting to avoid these risks makes sense but it also exposes the fallacy at the heart of US strategy.
The fundamental fallacy at the core of Obama's strategy was the idea that America could significantly reduce its commitments in the Middle East such that it could refocus its resources to the Asia-Pacific region to confront the rise of an aggressive China.
But when everyone is cutting back, one gets a fallacy of composition at the global level; you can't reorient your economy to exports when your neighbour is trying to do the same.
Yet for every Willetts on the right, there is a figure on the left to remind us that social mobility, like meritocracy, is a fallacy – because the supply of jobs at the top is limited, meaning a "less able" person of privilege will always have to move out of the way in order for a "bright" working-class person to progress.
There is, however, a logical fallacy at play among many of these opponents, in their presumption that the validity of a statement exists in direct proportion to its capacity to offend.
While the authors clearly show that the evidence provided by Lake et al. is insufficient to exclude the root from near the Chloroflexi based on their improved analyses, there is a logical fallacy at work in their conclusions.
There is a fallacy that life cannot survive the crushing pressures at the bottom of the deepest ocean trenches.
