Sentence examples for fallacy of believing from inspiring English sources

Holloway is guilty of the therapeutic fallacy of believing that what matters is what makes you feel good.

This temptation is hotly decried by other critics as "the intentional fallacy"—the fallacy (if it is a fallacy) of believing that whichever way the artist intended it is by definition the way it really is.

Fallacy of Fairness: believing things happen because life is not fair.

Fallacy of Change: believing that other people need to change for you to be happy.

But it is a fallacy to believe that the English voice is not heard at present.

"It's a fallacy to believe that attracting large companies from the outside is the key".

"In these days of Neil Patrick Harris and Matt Bomer, among others, we are seeing that the fallacy of 'audiences won't believe an out actor playing straight' is just that a fallacy," said Marc Andreyko, an openly gay comic writer and screenwriter who told me that geek culture the milieu out of which superheroes come has been accepting of queerness for a long time.  .

The popular idea that the groom was shocked by the sight of his bride's pubic hair, first suggested by an earlier Ruskin biographer, Mary Lutyens, is a fallacy, believes Hewison.

"We're still working in an old-fashioned, centralised, top-down system, which believes in the fallacy of control.

I know this post may engender further distrust and anger, but my hope is that it will educate many of the commenters on what I believe is a fallacy of misplaced concreteness (treating abstract beliefs as though they were concrete realities).

For example, one of the most common fallacies is to believe that the WTO meeting in Seattle in 1999 failed because of the anti-globalisation protests.