The phrase "fallacy by" can be used in written English to indicate that a certain fallacy or error has been committed by someone.
It is typically used to introduce and explain a particular fallacy, rather than serving as a complete sentence on its own. Example: "His argument was based on the fallacy of ad hominem, attacking the person instead of the argument itself." In this sentence, "fallacy by" is used to introduce and explain the specific fallacy that was committed.
You can spot these birds of fallacy by their embossed covers, sporting authors' names so imbued with selling power that they bulge from the dust jacket in a garish Braille.
Lewis's book, which annoyed Coolidge, is an extreme example of the imitative fallacy, by which an author replicates the disagreeable characteristics — in this case, self-satisfaction and verbosity — that he seeks to suggest.
John F. Manning's defense of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. uses a classic straw-man fallacy by conflating Congressional Democrats' actual criticism with a weaker version, and then persuasively disputing the weaker argument.
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.
Second, the deployment of a deeply cynical logical fallacy by the court of appeal in the case of J (Iran) [2006], which forms a convenient basis for refusing an asylum claim in most LGBT cases.
Iraq's justification for using the death penalty as a deterrent to terrorism was "clearly exposed as a fallacy" by the sharp rise in civilian casualties over the same period, Ms. Pillay noted.
Sehgal seeks to highlight these fallacies by filling the cathedral-like space with experiences, rather than monumental sculptures or installations.
We may finish our survey of the core fallacies by considering just two more.
"Everything I Am" is a song of self-examination, in which West attempts to confront his fallacies by surveying the consequences of his outspokeness ruminating over various ways people expect him to conduct himself.
He spews out weirdly articulate condemnations of "heart-shrinking marketing goblins and corporate warlocks" and observes that "talent is a fallacy created by gym teachers and Top 40 radio droids".
This seems bizarre: it's close to the broken-windows fallacy identified by the nineteenth-century economist Frédéric Bastiat — the idea that breaking windows is economically useful, because it makes work for glaziers.
