Sentence examples for fallacy as a from inspiring English sources

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.

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

Traditional accounts define a fallacy as a pattern of poor reasoning which appears to be (and in this sense mimics) a pattern of good reasoning (see Hansen 2002).

Walton volunteers a shorter version of the definition of a fallacy as "a deceptively bad argument that impedes the progress of a dialogue" (1995, 256).

Irving Copi's Introduction to Logic an influential text book from the mid-twentieth century defines a fallacy as "a form of argument that seems to be correct but which proves, upon examination, not to be so".

This characterization fits well the way we have come to think of the ad hominem fallacy as a view disparaged by putting forth a negative characterization of its supporter or his circumstances.

What interests me is his characterization of "the historian's fallacy" as an "optical illusion"; when one reads Machiavelli only through the lens of one's own time, he argues, we fail to understand what he 'actually' had to say.

One thing that nearly all the new approaches have in common is that they reject what Hamblin presents as the nearly universally accepted definition of "fallacy" as an argument "that seems to be valid but is not so" (1970, 12).

Murphy first appeared this season in "Gambler's Fallacy" as an undercover cop who saved Det.

The negative relationship of the unsigned TD error signal to future bets also supports the gambler's fallacy as an interpretation of task behavior.

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