Sentence examples for fallacious premise from inspiring English sources

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A worthy alternative floated a couple of years ago, based on the fallacious premise that non-participation is something to be relished.

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Under the guise of the first amendment, groups like Exodus International can be expected to promote so-called reparative therapy and misconstrue research that exposes its fallacious premises.

Skeptics argue that the connection of conspiracy theorists and occultists follows from their common fallacious premises.

And that's a fallacious assumption".

But even this key premise is fallacious, as it relies on a notorious error of probabilistic reasoning known in law as the "Prosecutor's Fallacy" [ 82, 83].

Both premises are fallacious: we should not have weapons which cannot be used for our defence and we cannot influence other countries not to have nuclear weapons when we ourselves have them.

In the present case, this allows one to describe the image as an impressive accomplishment from an artistic or aesthetic point of view (which it surely is), but still criticize it as an image which conveys a fallacious argument with questionable premises and debatable assumptions.

Well, as it turned out, the philosophy (assimilation) and premise ("extinction") behind this extraordinary intrusion, was fallacious.

(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.

Kant criticized arguments for God's existence (presumably brought to his attention through Wolff's Theologia Naturalis) that departed from the premise that the concept of God is noncontradictory as fallacious hyperrationalism.

To argue from the same premises that it would be right (wrt B) to bomb the village would be obviously fallacious.

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