The phrase "a fallacy by" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to attribute a specific type of fallacy to a person or argument, often in discussions of logic or reasoning.
Example: "The argument presented is a fallacy by appeal to authority, as it relies solely on the opinion of an expert without further evidence."
Alternatives: "an error in reasoning by" or "a logical fallacy attributed to".
Iraq's justification for using the death penalty as a deterrent to terrorism was "clearly exposed as a fallacy" by the sharp rise in civilian casualties over the same period, Ms. Pillay noted.
But in practice, the wage fund theory was "shown to be a fallacy by the end of the 19th century," Szymanski said.
On the surface, the myth is a fallacy by the mutual exclusion of its terms: how can tragedy and suffering be rendered beautiful?
The "real America" illusion perpetuated by the right has been finally acknowledged as a fallacy by a generation that understands that our nation is a melting pot of different cultures and identities.
He spews out weirdly articulate condemnations of "heart-shrinking marketing goblins and corporate warlocks" and observes that "talent is a fallacy created by gym teachers and Top 40 radio droids".
The most persistent mistake that historians and politicians have made in analyzing the modern world is to imagine, again and again — a fallacy shared by liberals and Marxists alike — that people will pursue their own economic interests in preference to their ideological fixations.
That's a fallacy perpetrated by the industry: that these kind of films can't make a lot of money.
Whereas the transcendental 'true' imposes its difficulties to qualify as a property of being as being, the indication of which was Aristotle's exclusion of being of reason from metaphysics, the transcendental 'good' raises the suspicion of a naturalistic fallacy, by making the ethical good depend upon the good as a property convertible with being.
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.
And this comment: "Isn't the author committing a fundamental fallacy by ignoring the historical context in which pre-modern artists were producing their works?" It's unlikely that Medieval and Renaissance artists were advocating theology.
But to underestimate the boundaries of what it can say is a fallacy committed only by those who misunderstand or deny the power of the scientific method.
