Sentence examples for fallacy of assuming from inspiring English sources

The argument founders on the fallacy of assuming that the adjective "American" has a fixed meaning with which everyone, or everyone who is right-thinking and patriotic, agrees.

Although you noted that births are neither increasing nor shrinking, and pointed out the fallacy of assuming that America's population growth is thus due strictly to immigration, you didn't let the other shoe drop.

Perhaps it is to do with the presumed fact that novels are more intimate expressions of their creator's sensibilities – which prompts us to commit the fallacy of assuming that a sex scene in a novel is a write-up of what the author did earlier.

Is there a formal name for the fallacy of assuming that the status quo is sane?

This distinction helps to avoid the fallacy of assuming that all individuals within a target group are homogeneous and will respond to an initiative in identical ways.

This is the fallacy of assuming that if a state of affairs is logically possible that is, its description involves no contradiction then an omnipotent being could single-handedly bring it about (Griffin 1976, 263f).

The first fallacy consists of assuming in premise (1) that regulations reduce employment.

The chapter flirts dangerously with the naturalistic fallacy, the mistake of assuming that "is" implies "ought".

He said it was a fallacy to assume the Marlins were the only team chasing Reyes.

One then commits a fallacy of composition by assuming here that the whole must have the properties of its parts: if none of the Yi parts collides with X then Y cannot collide with X.

But a striking series of experiments on change blindness reminded McNerney of what he calls "the Sartre Fallacy": assuming the empirical rigor of cognitive science would liberate him from the woolly projections of the existentialists, McNerney discovered that concepts like "confirmation bias" merely introduced another level of bias.