Sentence examples for by the fallacy from inspiring English sources

They would have won because the score was 2-1, unless that result would be wiped out by the fallacy of the predestined score.

Let us not be misled by the fallacy that a deep and workable single market requires everything to be harmonised, to hanker after some unattainable and infinitely level playing field.

He was scheduled to summarize a dialogue between a Buddhist and a psychoanalyst, but he was suddenly struck by the fallacy that enlightenment meant complete freedom from self-deception.

She seems merely bemused by the fallacy that whoever scripts a comic must be its lone author: "I do realize just from doing stuff where you're meeting a more general audience, people who aren't involved with comics, reading them intensely or making them, it really is quite mysterious, the process".

Bradwardine, for example, explicitly and repeatedly casts his solution in terms of Aristotle's discussion, making actual (not merely "honorary") use of the conceptual framework offered by the fallacy secundum quid et simpliciter.[11] Aristotle had suggested (180b5 7) that insolubles are false simpliciter (absolutely/without qualification), but true secundum quid (in a certain respect).

The new program will no longer abide by the fallacy that young Americans curious about their second amendment rights should be told to "run away" from firearms.

This temptation is hotly decried by other critics as "the intentional fallacy"—the fallacy (if it is a fallacy) of believing that whichever way the artist intended it is by definition the way it really is.

They have been replaced by the fallacies associated with the ad-arguments.

Long before Keynes, this essential point was shown by John M Robertson in The Fallacy of Saving (1892).

Halfway through the film, an untitled poem by Leo Avedon about the "fallacy of respectability" politics, which argue that, if black males want to be seen in less dangerous ways, they should dress and act differently, is read over positive moving images of the black teenagers.

"By exposing the fallacy of the UK's extradition arrangements with the US, I leave with my head held high, having won the moral victory".