Sentence examples for fallacy such as from inspiring English sources

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Some subtlety is needed to bring about this fallacy such as a clever use of synonymy or an intermixing of particular and universal propositions (Top. VIII, 13).

I'm not sure what it means for our republic that a fallacy such as Argumentation from Outrage is on the verge of supplanting the whole package of logical and rhetorical techniques designed to construct a sound argument and then present it in a compelling manner.

Here the word "principle", though powerful and insightful, implies imprecision and possible fallacy, such as the Dirichlet's principle in mathematics [ 5].

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These four movements — the "ex-gay", intelligent design, conservative bioethics, and climate-change denial movements — rely on fallacies such as the false-choice dichotomy, which portrays certain choices as absolute either/or questions, to dismiss the work of the scientific establishment as conspiracies that threaten to undo society's moral foundation.

Some of the traditional Aristotelian fallacies such as ambiguity, composition and division, petitio principii, and ignoratio elenchi, are placed in this category.

Part of SciDev.Net's mission will be to separate the wheat from the chaff: It is difficult to gauge the reliability of information on the Web, the organizers say, when many slick sites are actually promoting fallacies, such as that HIV does not cause AIDS.

The transparency of this underrepresentation and the stigmatizing catch-all dredges up fallacies such as: women artists simply can't paint as well as men (thanks, Georg Baselitz); women can't make art and have kids, it's one or the other; and women should be relegated to being objects and muses rather than creators themselves.

The transparency of this underrepresentation and the stigmatising catch-all dredges up fallacies such as: women artists simply can't paint as well as men (thanks, Georg Baselitz); women can't make art and have kids, it's one or the other; and women should be relegated to being objects and muses rather than creators themselves.

DSM-V and CAM in our view rest on logical fallacies, such as appeal to unqualified authority (American Psychiatric Association) and circular reasoning (poor hearing generates false positives).

The New Yorker, December 21 , 1929P. 17 Great fallacy of public debates, such as one one marriage last week, is that public speakers don't get down to business.

Undaunted by the perils of pathetic fallacy, she writes lines such as: "Indigenous Australians told me not only how children need land, but also how land needs children, to hear their voices and their laughter in order to know that it is not abandoned".

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