Sentence examples for fallacy because it from inspiring English sources

Michael Smith calls this the advice model (in contrast to the example model), and it plausibly avoids the problems connected with the 'conditional fallacy' because it builds in sensitivity to the relevant conditions in the actual cases that generate the reasons.

This type of surveillance is subject to the ecologic fallacy because it describes the average risk of tuberculosis in a population but does not characterize the risk to an individual following exposure to an infectious case.

However, the Gini coefficient, our exposure variable, is not subject to a classical ecological fallacy because it is a characteristic the LGA that has been measured.

The Council of Community Housing Organizations, which calls itself the "voice of San Francisco's affordable housing movement," echoed Bronstein's assertion, producing infographics and other documents arguing that filtering is a "fallacy". That's because, it says — echoing Bronstein — rents continue to rise even when more market-rate units are built.

Finally, "Humans were specially designed" was removed from intelligent design fallacies because it is not an unambiguous representative of the creationist movement despite its high factor loading on the construct.

This is a logical fallacy -- "because I believe a thing to be true, it must be true". All along, it wasn't true, and it is still not true now.

The presence of large significant interactions suggested that the case mix variable was potentially prone to the constant risk fallacy, because its relation to mortality differed from the Dr Foster Unit national estimate.

If that is the sense in which the premise is intended, then the argument can be said to be a fallacy because despite initial appearances, it affords no support for the conclusion.

We also fall victim to our own sunk-cost fallacy (the idea that something is valuable because we already invested in it).

The idea that machines can see or notice what human beings do not is a fallacy, because the machine is only doing what it is told – and it is the programmers who are setting parameters.

Silicon Valley is suffering from an acute fallacy of composition: Just because it does some good doesn't mean the whole is good.