Sentence examples for fallacy on which from inspiring English sources

Sandy Hook trutherism is unforgivable, but the essential fallacy on which it rests – that facts we can't account for must have a sinister explanation – is a widespread, human and dangerously seductive one.

For nearly four decades, courts have uniformly rejected the 861 position, sometimes in opinions detailing the logical and legal fallacies on which it is based.

Perhaps he and Mr. Orloff ("Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole"), rather than advancing the case for Edward de Vere, set out to undermine it by exposing the absurd prejudices and fallacies on which the hypothesis rests.

Economics was always based on fallacies, one of which that humans are completely rational.

Boethius the character is clearly taken in by this fallacious argument, and there is no good reason to think that Boethius the author ever became aware of the fallacy (despite a passage later on which some modern commentators have interpreted in this sense).

DON'T fall prey to the fallacy that there is a single day on which the fall colors are at their peak.

The seventh tract of the Tractatus, on fallacies, which forms part of the Aristotelian-Boethian logic, is written in the tradition of the Fallacie maiores (Major fallacies).

Speaking of the 1989 Affordable Housing Law, the fulcrum on which AvalonBay rests part of its legal strategy, Mayor Lisman said: "The biggest fallacy in the law is it negates local zoning.

105 The problem has been referred to as the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem defined as the 'geographic manifestation of the ecological fallacy in which conclusions based on data aggregated to a particular set of districts may change if one aggregates the same underlying data to a different set of districts'.

A sophism is a fallacy in which the error has been knowingly committed, for whatever purpose.

It's impossible to list literary rainstorms without including poor old Lear on the heath, every English teacher's favourite example of what Ruskin called "pathetic fallacy" in which human emotions and aspects of the natural world become inextricably linked.