Sentence examples for fallacy as from inspiring English sources

Since adjustment of variables is 'admission-based', one can ask whether the practice of admitting and readmitting in itself may be prone to the constant risk fallacy as well.

When I first began to write the book, I suffered from the fallacy, as many first-time authors do, that the trick to good writing is good equipment.

But even, as noted in How to Be Single, the independence of Carrie Bradshaw and her pals was something of a fallacy as they spent the majority of their time talking about men.

Based on Voltaire's account of the Queen of Babylon in 800BC, Semiramide is as dark as Rossini opera gets, its superficial cheerfulness as sinister a fallacy as a bling chandelier still lit above a bombed-out ballroom.

Even country's slight outliers have fallen victim to that fallacy, as seen in two singers with new albums and singles in the Top 10 on the Billboard country songs chart: Gary Allan and Randy Houser, neither of whom deserve this fate.

Discuss the fallacy as a potential tool for creating erroneous beliefs for the audience.

Part 1 is an introduction to the core fallacies as brought to us by the tradition of the textbooks.

Like the treatises of the Tractatus kind, the Syncategoreumata were developed from the (twelfth-century) theories on fallacies, as well as from grammatical doctrines (from the same period).

His criticisms rang true with many of his readers, thereby provoking contempt for the traditional treatment of fallacies as well as stimulating research in what we may call the new, or post-Hamblin era, of fallacy studies.

Second, since the epistemological approach does not insist that all justification must be deductive, it allows the possibility of their being fallacies (as well as good arguments) by non-deductive standards, something precluded by SDF.

This new list of fallacies has a different bent than many earlier lists, being more geared to deal with arguments in popular, everyday communication than philosophical or scientific discourse; this is evident both by the omission of some of the traditional fallacies as well as by the introduction of new ones, such as dubious assumption, two wrongs, slippery slope, and faulty analogy.