Sentence examples for fallacy may have from inspiring English sources

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Haggard says that the gambler's fallacy may have a role in other contests on and off the sports field, such as in business decisions, but the penalty shootout is an unusually pure example of where "the gambler's fallacy is one of the few things that could allow one side to have an advantage over the other".

Also, the term 'strawman fallacy' may have its origins in Watts's discussion of ignoratio elenchi: after having dressed up the opinions and sentiments of their adversaries as they please to make "images of straw", disputers "triumph over their adversary as though they had utterly confuted his opinions" (1796, Pt. III 3 i 1).

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Now there are indications that two technical fallacies may have affected the policy of your administration.

Although we may have introduced an ecological fallacy bias in assigning UVI aggregate data to individual subjects, other factors such as sun avoidance practices to inadequate supplementation may also account for the low 25-OH vitamin D levels observed in this cross-sectional study.

Ecologic correlation studies may have the problem of ecological fallacy, and occupational cohorts may have the limitations of multiple exposures.

Anyone who's lost money on a fixer-upper may have succumbed to a classic economic fallacy known as "sunk costs".

The spatial scale used may have obscured some factors via the ecological fallacy effect [ 21].

The use of a neighborhood-level index of SES is subjected to ecological fallacy such that incorrect inferences of individual levels of SES may have been made.

At this time, the students and I revisit some of the survey responses and try to point out the fallacy of some of the answers, or the circular or teleological reasoning that may have constituted their responses.

I may have once, shortly after my confirmation, been foolish enough to believe in the possibility of an intelligent designer, but I have long since exposed the pathetic fallacy of that belief.

This may have been due to the absence of variation among Carstairs scores among this study population, suggesting that this measure is prone to the ecological fallacy.

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