Sentence examples for classic fallacy from inspiring English sources

The central problem with "Ill Fares the Land" is a classic fallacy of the liberal-left intelligentsia, more in Europe than in the United States.

(After he spoke, the evening's unofficial M.C., Michael Bierut, a partner at the design firm Pentagram, endeavored largely unsuccessfully to adjust the microphone to fit the varying heights of the successive speakers. "A classic fallacy," Mr. Patton said later, "turning to a graphic designer to solve a product-design problem").

But it is a classic fallacy to use the effects of inequality to justify its perpetuation.

Even if an argument to authority weren't a classic fallacy, why should any of us (left, right, center) grant this group--whose members steered a policy course that has proved dreadfully costly in lives lost and treasure squandered--any authority to comment or advise us.

It is a classic anthropomorphic fallacy to believe that an animal's best interests are whatever a human would desire under similar circumstances.

Anyone who's lost money on a fixer-upper may have succumbed to a classic economic fallacy known as "sunk costs".

The fact that we do not know the joint distribution of the study factors and the disease incidence within each group, means that an ecological study could lead us into the classic ecological fallacy (i.e. making causal interferences about an individual phenomenon or process when the observations are made at group level (aggregated) [ 20].

She says, in desdribing the game called Seven Bugs, that one of the classic mathematical fallacies was immortalized by William Wordsworth in his "On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802".

Participants were presented with problems that were based on the classic conjunction-fallacy task (e.g., the "Linda-Problem", see [23]).

Ikeda and Jefferys commits a classic straw man fallacy: They construct a flawed formulation of the fine-tuning argument, discredit this flawed version, then claim that they won the debate.

John F. Manning's defense of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. uses a classic straw-man fallacy by conflating Congressional Democrats' actual criticism with a weaker version, and then persuasively disputing the weaker argument.