Sentence examples for definition of fallacy from inspiring English sources

One thing that nearly all the new approaches have in common is that they reject what Hamblin presents as the nearly universally accepted definition of "fallacy" as an argument "that seems to be valid but is not so" (1970, 12).

Although this definition of fallacy is not nearly as widely accepted as Hamblin intimated (see Hansen 2002), others have taken to calling it "the standard definition of fallacies" and for convenience we can refer to it as SDF.

Walton volunteers a shorter version of the definition of a fallacy as "a deceptively bad argument that impedes the progress of a dialogue" (1995, 256).

It hardly needs to be said that listing dictionary definitions to prove that an offensive term does not offend a marginalized group that had no say in the writing of the dictionary definition is the height of fallacy.

In game theory "Concorde fallacy" became the definition of a situation that you cannot pull out of, once in - what is now explained in finance as "too big to fail".

Nevertheless, Pragma-dialectics prefers to keep the appearance condition outside the definition of 'fallacy', treating the seeming goodness of fallacies as a sometime co-incidental property, rather than an essential one.

But the terminological sleight-of-hand inherent in the government's definition of 'criminal alien' perpetuates and exacerbates the fallacy of a link between immigration and crime".

What a maestro of fallacy.

In that work, four things are worth noting: (a) the different conceptions of fallacy, (b) the basic concepts used to explain fallacies, (c) his explanation of why fallacies can be deceptive, and (d) his enumeration and classification of fallacies.

This type of fallacy shows up a lot.

As an initial working definition of the subject matter, we may take a fallacy to be an argument that seems to be better than it really is.