Sentence examples for basic fallacy from inspiring English sources

Event A happened, and event B followed; thus, A caused B. It is a basic fallacy in logic, sometimes referred to as correlation not causation.

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.

But the hope that the Middle Eastern subjects of the former British and French Empires would accept the American Revolution as a model for their own anti-imperialist struggle rested on a basic fallacy that Arab writers were quick to point out.

"There is a basic fallacy underlying the majority's actions and rhetoric today: the assumption of what is best for broadband providers is best for America.

To him the basic fallacy was the very assumption with which Keynes had started out: the assumption that the healthy, the "normal," economy is an economy in static equilibrium.

The strange outcome this year is due to the primary system's basic fallacy: that it represents the public.

Deeper reflection on their argument exposes basic fallacies.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] and balancesSIR—I beg to point out a couple of basic fallacies in your article on the merits (or not) of the election method for a reformed upper chamber of Parliament (Bagehot, May 8th).

And it is with the power of education in mind that I write to expose some basic fallacies of the arguments in favor of the continued oppression and mistreatment of LGBT Americans.

Actually, as Miles Kimball points out, he's committing a basic microeconomic fallacy — a fallacy you usually identify with Econ 101 freshmen early in the semester (and as it happens the same fallacy committed by Rajan).

McArdle also makes the analyst's most basic mistake -- fallacy based on anecdote -- by repeatedly saying that by definition "Patty Barreiro" is a "medical bankruptcy" case.