Sentence examples for fallacy assuming from inspiring English sources
In my misguided empathy I had committed what William James called the psychologist's fallacy, assuming incorrectly that one knows what someone else is experiencing.
But a striking series of experiments on change blindness reminded McNerney of what he calls "the Sartre Fallacy": assuming the empirical rigor of cognitive science would liberate him from the woolly projections of the existentialists, McNerney discovered that concepts like "confirmation bias" merely introduced another level of bias.
It's all very plausible, except that it falls into the sceptic's fallacy: assuming that beliefs you don't understand can't be sincerely held.
It's all very plausible, except that it falls into the skeptic's fallacy: assuming that beliefs you don't understand can't be sincerely held.
His work shows us the fallacy in assuming that, given the facts, people will make logical choices.
The argument founders on the fallacy of assuming that the adjective "American" has a fixed meaning with which everyone, or everyone who is right-thinking and patriotic, agrees.
Your discussion of the apparently long-observed correlation between poetry and morbidity (Arts & Ideas, April 24) commits a basic fallacy by assuming that the former must somehow be causing the latter.
Although you noted that births are neither increasing nor shrinking, and pointed out the fallacy of assuming that America's population growth is thus due strictly to immigration, you didn't let the other shoe drop.
Perhaps it is to do with the presumed fact that novels are more intimate expressions of their creator's sensibilities – which prompts us to commit the fallacy of assuming that a sex scene in a novel is a write-up of what the author did earlier.
Is there a formal name for the fallacy of assuming that the status quo is sane?
This distinction helps to avoid the fallacy of assuming that all individuals within a target group are homogeneous and will respond to an initiative in identical ways.
