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The phrase "fallacious by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to indicate that something is false or misleading due to a particular reason or factor. Example: The politician's argument was deemed fallacious by their opponents due to the lack of evidence to support their claims.
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If you don't objectively think about and aggressively fact check what everybody tells you, your arguments could be perceived as fallacious by others who have done research.
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This forms part of a campaign by the press to ridicule the law, based upon a series of fallacious arguments backed by statements that are misleading and self-interested.
Though Steinle's murder may seem to be powerful evidence of a criminal problem the US has with undocumented immigrants, H.R. 3009 is a dangerous attempt at the single-issue politicization of law enforcement and is based upon fallacious reasoning unsupported by peer-reviewed literature.
In seeking to find how groups react to various interventions, Esther Duflo's interpretation of results, if negative, is fallacious ("The Poverty Lab," by Ian Parker, May 17th).
Remember the fallacist's fallacy (Curtis [2001]): a claim is not wrong simply because it is defended by a fallacious argument.
Groarke & Tindale 2012 use traditional fallacies as a basis for the definition of positive argument schemes, by treating ad hominem, guilt by association, appeals to ignorance, two wrongs reasoning, etc. as legitimate schemes of argument — and by treating fallacious instances of them as deviations from an (inherently correct) norm.
Boethius the character is clearly taken in by this fallacious argument, and there is no good reason to think that Boethius the author ever became aware of the fallacy (despite a passage later on which some modern commentators have interpreted in this sense).
No surprise there, as the airwaves have been blanketed by pointless, fallacious, and just annoying campaign ads.
Yet both programs are wounded and suffering from a slow process of erosion -- justified by a fallacious story line that they are drains on the national budget when in fact the opposite is the case.
Scientific journals play an important gatekeeping role in science by screening out fallacious reports.
The war was based on phony W.M.D. analyses and fallacious welcome scenarios drummed up by the neocon Chihuahua Ahmad Chalabi.
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