Sentence examples for fallacy the from inspiring English sources
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.
Yes, there are some bargains to be had, but don't succumb to the discount fallacy––the notion that a mere disparity in price makes one property a better buy than another.
Some psychologists also fall prey to the naturalistic fallacy, the belief that what is natural is therefore good.
Still another fallacy the Deal Professor advances is that my strategy as an activist is simply to "sell the company".
He questions our reliance on the "narrative fallacy", the way past information is used to analyse the causes of events when so much history is actually "silent".
It is a variation of the pathetic fallacy (the view of Romantic poets that weather mirrors emotions) to suggest that rural tranquillity induces moral rectitude.
As a philosopher, I was glad to see that Low is averse to the "naturalistic fallacy" -- the mistake of inferring what is right and good from the scientific facts.
Given the near universality of patriarchal societies and cultures, the natural law argument about sex differences readily becomes an example of the naturalistic fallacy -- the tendency to read culture as nature.
Older workers who resist early retirement are accused of stealing jobs from the young.These accusations result from the old "lump of labour" fallacy the mistaken belief that there is only so much work to go around.
These include the tendency to seek out information that supports one's own argument, and to discount information that does not; and the sunk-cost fallacy the factoring-in of unrecoverable costs already incurred when making decisions.
Although mocked by economists as a prime example of the "lump-of-labour" fallacy the idea that there is only so much work to go around the government claims that it had created 240,000 jobs by the end of 2000.Hmm.
