Sentence examples for fallacy in our from inspiring English sources

If anything, it's a pointing indictment of the logical fallacy in our society's way of thinking".

For example, many of us, to our chagrin, have had to confess committing the error of the gamblers fallacy in our own betting on games or on the events of life.

We have known for years that equal opportunity is a fallacy in our public schools.

It would give us a systematic way of demarcating fallacies and other kinds of mistakes; it would give us a framework for justifying fallacy judgments, and it would give us a sense of the place of fallacies in our larger conceptual schemes.

We present graphical illustrations of the transitive fallacy in three hypothetical, but plausible, scenarios.

It is the fact that you see the problem as a problem rather than a fallacy in your understanding, your focus, your perception.

Groups 2 and 3 are called logical fallacies, or fallacies "in discourse," in contrast to the substantive, or material, fallacies of group 1, called fallacies "in matter"; and groups 1 and 2, in contrast to group 3, are called informal fallacies.

25 It has also to be considered that the use of small units of analysis reduce the possibility of ecological fallacy, 41 and in our study 75% of the municipalities had less than 25 000 inhabitants.

Or the Base Rate Fallacy in which we favor our own immediate experiences over research findings.

"The importance of 'Dianetics,' " he wrote, "is that it so clearly illustrates the most common fallacy of our time in regard to psychological ills.

It was an opportunity to remind Wills of a fallacy in informal logic: the fallacy of false alternative.