Sentence examples for fallacy based on from inspiring English sources

Which means that our attempt to judge today's debates against earlier standards of rhetoric might represent a Category Error, that is a fallacy based on assuming two different things (such as historic personal debates and modern televised ones) are members of the same category when they might not be.

In October on Sky News, Plimer told the News Corp political commentator and fellow climate science denier Andrew Bolt that human-caused climate change was a "fallacy based on fraud promoted by fools".

McArdle also makes the analyst's most basic mistake -- fallacy based on anecdote -- by repeatedly saying that by definition "Patty Barreiro" is a "medical bankruptcy" case.

As for the range of 0.4 to 0.8 for the heritability of IQ, it's a fallacy based on an assumption of independent genetic and environmental variables in a linear relationship with heritability, which means no gene-environment interactions.

In contrast, an individualistic fallacy, 113 114 based on the 'high-risk' 111 approach, should also be avoided in the interpretation of these results.

Besides, some logical fallacies are based on the premise that an arguer is actually trying to build some kind of case.

Economics was always based on fallacies, one of which that humans are completely rational.

Perhaps the greatest of these fallacies was the one based on a widespread tendency to ignore the potential for collective action problems in groups, and thus to move far too easily "down" from an identification of a group interest to the ascription of an individual interest.

This is called the Out of Nowhere Fallacy, and is based on the illusion that reactions are responses only to the action at hand, rather than to every similar action that has occurred in all previous interactions between the two objects.

105 The problem has been referred to as the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem defined as the 'geographic manifestation of the ecological fallacy in which conclusions based on data aggregated to a particular set of districts may change if one aggregates the same underlying data to a different set of districts'.

We now know that neither denying the hunger, nor explaining that it is based on fallacy, is a viable strategy.