Sentence examples for fallacious inferences from inspiring English sources

A poor choice of terminology can lead to conceptual confusions and fallacious inferences.

Methodological individualism became important, not as a way of avoiding the political thought-crime of "collectivism," but rather as a way of avoiding demonstrably fallacious inferences about the dynamics of collective action.

The evidence of the "Lesser Selection" suggests that, aside from the fact that parallelizing does tend to yield fallacious inferences, the Mohists may have been especially concerned about it because opponents used this technique to attack positions they held.

One of his examples is the fallacious inference from (1) "Coriscus is different from Socrates" (i.e., Coriscus is not Socrates) and (2) "Socrates is a man" to (3) "Coriscus is different from a man" (i.e., Coriscus is not a man).

The fallacious enthymeme pretends to include a valid deduction, while it actually rests on a fallacious inference.

Laying stress upon his claim about the universality of certain beliefs across our species has opened Reid up to tiresome criticism that began in his lifetime and continues to the present of the following sort: Reid's appeals to common sense are little more than affirmations of majority opinion or appeals to the masses, but these are fallacious, so his inferences from such principles are defeated.

There remain, however, a number of contemporary Thomists who deny that such a deduction or inference need be fallacious, and regard Aquinas as postulating some such deduction or inference.

Mill's inference is nonetheless fallacious.

Recognize fallacies and determine if the fallacious arguments are relevant for the science content.

We turn now to the more substantial issue, namely, why the inference from the consistency of AXR to that of AXG is in fact fallacious from Frege's point of view.

The inference from the consistency of one such set of thoughts to the other will be fallacious.