Sentence examples for fallacy from from inspiring English sources

Contemporary French writers like Alain Robbe-Grillet in Jealousy (1957), Nathalie Sarraute in Tropisms (1939) and The Planetarium (1959), and Michel Butor in Passing Time (1957) and Degrees (1960) wish mainly to remove the pathetic fallacy from fiction, in which the universe, which is indifferent to man, is made to throw back radar reflections of man's own emotions.

The philosopher Philip Sherrard has summed this up: "There is one particular fallacy from which we must free ourselves, and this is the idea that contemporary scientific theories are somehow neutral, or value-free, and do not presuppose the submission of the human mind to a set of assumptions or dogmas in the way that is said to be demanded by adherence to a religious faith.

Similarly, 'Socrates approaching you know' can be true while 'You know Socrates approaching' (the "hooded man" fallacy from Aristotle's De Sophisticis Elenchis 179b1 3) may be false (for you know Socrates, but do not recognize him approaching).

This reinforces my point that the nonsense Republicans are talking on economics comes not from uneducated ignorance but from highly educated ignorance: they're getting their fallacies from eminent academics, not the man in the street.

Chapter 6 reviews all the fallacies from the view point of failed refutations and chapter 7 explains how the appearance of correctness is made possible for each fallacy.

The proposal here is to shift the study of fallacies from the contexts of arguments to the contexts of dialogues (argumentation), and formulate rules for reasonable dialogue activity, and then connect fallacies to failures of rule-following.

Today, logical fallacies from the Trump campaign rule the day.

The fallacy arises from the fact that life expectancy is measured from birth, but years in retirement is measured from about age 65.

The most important of these he called "the epistemic fallacy", arising from the conventional study of how we can know things, or epistemology.

One fallacy stems from the fact that a Christian wearing a cross is not analogous to a Sikh wearing a turban, a Muslim wearing a scarf or a Jew wearing a skullcap.

The fallacy springs from assuming that Islam (or any other religion) is a unitary and unique causal force.