Sentence examples for fallacious point from inspiring English sources

"Romney's making a twisted and completely fallacious point," said Rattner.

They were also right to rebut Mr. Helms's fallacious arguments, pointing out that it is not right for any nation to decide whether to pay dues to the United Nations based on the issues of the moment, or to equate agreements on international norms with loss of sovereignty.

And his logic can seem like circular — to the point of fallacious — reasoning.

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.

When we investigate the trajectory of a certain planet, for instance, we first eliminate points that are fallacious from the observation records and then fit a smooth curve to the remaining ones.

Republicans intent on scoring campaign points immediately repeated their fallacious cries that "tens of thousands of jobs" would be lost by not instantly approving the project.

This, as Scotus points out, is a fallacious argument.

(3) Deductions that start from premises which only appear to be dialectical, are fallacious deductions because of their starting points, as are (4) those "deductions" that do have dialectical premises but do not really necessitate their conclusions.

Watch for more scientific-sounding points that are nonetheless fallacious after analysis.

As Hume and Kant pointed out, however, it is fallacious to derive a proposition with existential import from a tautology, and it is now generally agreed that, from a tautology alone, it is impossible to derive any significant proposition.

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