It is fallacious to argue that because no one is storming the castle, no real injustice exists.
"The argument is fallacious to begin with and plays on people's fears -- the two aren't connected," she said of the link between terror and drug abuse.
It's fallacious to think that simply the statement of a problem, and the provision of an appallingly insensitive, brutal "solution" to this problem, is an ethical option.
As Hume and Kant pointed out, however, it is fallacious to derive a proposition with existential import from a tautology, and it is now generally agreed that, from a tautology alone, it is impossible to derive any significant proposition.
Thus it is fallacious to conclude from the fact that the arrow doesn't travel any distance in an instant that it is at rest; whether it is in motion at an instant or not depends on whether it travels any distance in a finite interval that includes the instant in question.
First, we argue that it is fallacious to believe that because the formulation of the theory of evolution, as conceived in the 1800s, did not include an explanation for the origin of life, nor of the universe, the concept of evolution would not allow us to hypothesize the possible beginnings of life and its connections to the cosmos.
It is fallacious to believe that because "the theory of evolution is not an explanation for the origin of life" (Rice et al. 2010), the concept of evolution would not allow us to hypothesize and test the possible beginnings of life (see Lazcano and Peretó 2010 for a specific criticism of the position of Rice et al. concerning this point).
By the same token, as I noted earlier, it is fallacious to assume that self-sufficiency and economic independence are desirable.
" [ 124] Here is one way of understanding why it is fallacious to make conclusions from insignificant results.
