Sentence examples for fallacious sense from inspiring English sources

That the living ever dwell at the frontier of time seems to encourage a fallacious sense that the hour is getting late.

I also originally invoked the term "curate's egg" (in its traditional, fallacious sense) although a portmanteau collection of short movies is no more likely to be a mixed bag than a conventional single narrative – and the success/fail ratio for this film is an awful lot higher than for most others.

There is a fallacious sense that traditional country is "bush" when, of course, it was all such until European occupation and development – the blink of an Indigenous eye given the 50,000 to 60,000 year history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander civilisation here.

He argues, after Descartes, that our possession of an inherently fallacious sense would make a deceiver of God (Reid 1785/1969, 783).

Far from asserting his earlier thesis that the achievement of political democracy require socialism or, at any rate, a greater degree of economic democracy in the form of lessened concentration of economic power in the capitalist class, Hook advanced the criticism that Hayek's thesis paralleled in a significant sense the fallacious Marxist thesis of economic determinism.

This produced the sense "captious or fallacious reasoner or quibbler," which has remained dominant to the present day.

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

So the conventional wisdom about how we have to fear a Chinese bond-buying strike just doesn't make sense — and in fact it falls down in exactly the same way as fallacious arguments about the harm done by fiscal deficits in a depressed economy; basically, Erskine Bowles is making the same error as whatshisname.

So it seems as if Aristotle didn't regard all non-necessary sign-arguments as fallacious or deceptive; but even if this is true, it is difficult for Aristotle to determine the sense in which non-necessary sign-enthymemes are valid arguments, since he is bound to the alternative of deduction and induction, and neither class seems appropriate for non-necessary sign-arguments.

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.

This is fallacious reasoning.