Sentence examples for based on fallacy from inspiring English sources
We now know that neither denying the hunger, nor explaining that it is based on fallacy, is a viable strategy.
After too many similar encounters — most less loony yet still involving firm conviction based on fallacy — I could see why so many people in Europe and beyond tell me that the United States is the most dangerous country on earth.
Economics was always based on fallacies, one of which that humans are completely rational.
Other objections raised by black and Hispanic lawmakers are based on fallacies.
If flows and filters are incompletely understood, policies may be based on fallacies.
Re "Prostate Cancer Decisions Often Based on Fallacies" (July 4): Although many patients make educated decisions, a huge number have minimal recall and comprehension of the details of their problems, their treatment options and the risks and benefits of their choices.
The first group could react as suggested by Yap ([2013]), where the audience with pre-existing biases evaluates the arguments based on fallacies.
And when the lie feeds into your already preconceived notions, even if they are based on fallacies, well then everyone seems ready to jump on the bandwagon of bullshittery.
In defence of this decision, Miss Mulyani has one limp argument that consumers have to get used to fuel prices going both up and down and one unanswerable one that, so close to an election, no one will tackle subsidies.The politics may be intractable, but they are based on a fallacy.
