Sentence examples for essential fallacy from inspiring English sources

Sandy Hook trutherism is unforgivable, but the essential fallacy on which it rests – that facts we can't account for must have a sinister explanation – is a widespread, human and dangerously seductive one.

But Walton (e.g., 2010) continues to consider appearances an essential part of fallacies as does Powers (1995, 300) who insists that fallacies must "have an appearance, however quickly seen through, of being valid".

A counterblast by New Republic journalist Craig Fehrman entitled "The showrunner fallacy" stressed the essential collaborative nature of making television.

Since in many cases one of the chief guides is logical reasoning, the ability to spot fallacies is an essential skill.

From Aristotle to Mill the appearance condition was an essential part of the conception of fallacies.

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

The reverse inference from (b) to (a)—the fallacy of division may also fail if some essential members of the team have a supportive or administrative role rather than a research role.

An understanding and awareness of strong versus weak arguments, and the informal fallacies used to surreptitiously circumvent the former, are essential to critical thinking and to the evaluation of claims whether scientific or pseudoscientific.

So powerful is our tendency towards the just-world fallacy that there are some clinicians who argue it is essential to maintaining our psychological wellbeing.

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 we need to expose and celebrate the fallacy of this conclusion so that, in this moment of crisis, we may reaffirm an essential truth too easily forgotten, and regain some crucial comfort too readily forgone.