Sentence examples similar to a fallacy of arguments from inspiring English sources

As Geach saw it, we need to think of predication as constant across embedded and unembedded occurrences of predicative moral sentences so as not to commit a fallacy of equivocation in making arguments.

In the above argument, there is a fallacy of the figure of speech because not everything said of the divine essence is predicable to the Father, because the term divine essence (subject) supposits for the Son and Holy Spirit while the term Father (predicate) does not.

In essence, the theories that Olson's argument demolished were all grounded in a fallacy of composition.

No — that's a fallacy of composition.

This is a fallacy of composition.

But this is a fallacy of composition.

Walton volunteers a shorter version of the definition of a fallacy as "a deceptively bad argument that impedes the progress of a dialogue" (1995, 256).

This shares only one condition with SDF: that a fallacy is an argument.

Irving Copi's Introduction to Logic an influential text book from the mid-twentieth century defines a fallacy as "a form of argument that seems to be correct but which proves, upon examination, not to be so".

As an initial working definition of the subject matter, we may take a fallacy to be an argument that seems to be better than it really is.

I need not adduce further arguments to establish a position so clear, I need only call to your recollection my observations in a former letter, wherein I endeavoured to shew the fallacy of the argument, that the members must return home and mix with the people.