Eylon's [End Page 173] study dispels this fallacy by offering a detailed examination of the numerous discussions of reincarnation in the medieval kabbalistic classic, Sefer ha-Bahir.
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.
The fallacy propagated by a noisome minority is that there is any need to choose between the two.
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.
Lisa attempts to demonstrate Homer's logical fallacy by the example of a tiger-repellent rock, but it goes over his head.
But in practice, the wage fund theory was "shown to be a fallacy by the end of the 19th century," Szymanski said.
On the surface, the myth is a fallacy by the mutual exclusion of its terms: how can tragedy and suffering be rendered beautiful?
Whereas the transcendental 'true' imposes its difficulties to qualify as a property of being as being, the indication of which was Aristotle's exclusion of being of reason from metaphysics, the transcendental 'good' raises the suspicion of a naturalistic fallacy, by making the ethical good depend upon the good as a property convertible with being.
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.
