Back in Britain, we look forward to the end of the Blair era signalling an end to the fallacious idea that the solutions to the intractable problems of the current time - inequality, social disengagement, environmental disaster - are to be found through prayer or divine intervention, rather than in the grubby, compromised human world of real democratic politics and evidence-based argument.
Before launching his campaign, in June, 2015, he had been a Democrat (for most of his life), a potential Reform Party candidate (during a brief flirtation with Presidential politics, in 2000), and, starting in 2011, a kind of conservative gadfly, obsessed with the fallacious idea that Obama was not born in America.
In our view, the notion that there is some point of "escape velocity" for the US economy is a fallacious idea.
The tragedy is that the years of austerity have not allowed that, and may even have fostered the fallacious idea that Greece's problems are about bad debts and busted banks.
Alas, the Fed;and all too many economists and policymakers;is still chained to the fallacious idea that prosperity causes inflation.
There is a pervasive and fallacious idea that the tech sector, which is SF's Hollywood, is a meritocracy, which implies that individuals — by virtue or smarts or gumption — do control their place in it and the world.
Listen to a podcast of Sonja Lyubomirsky discussing the "myths of happiness". Many of us hold on to fallacious ideas about happiness, thinking we'd be happier if we had the right relationship, a good job, or perfect health, or that our happiness would be destroyed by loss.
But this idea of superintelligence is fallacious because it assumes that the brain is "like a computer", i.e. a biological information processing machine.
Of course, as has been discussed since the 1970's, the idea of the gallery-as-white cube is fallacious.
If, however, causal reasoning were fallacious, the principle of the uniformity of nature might well be among its principles.
