"This underscores the fallacy of thinking the best-managed banks are somehow infallible," said Sheila C. Bair, the former chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a bank regulator.
There's an old joke that Jacob Frenkel, formerly of Chicago and then the Bank of Israel, used to tell to illustrate the fallacy of thinking that you always have to do the opposite of what caused the initial problem.
"The fundamental fallacy was thinking that if we change the law in Washington, Mexicans would stop coming to find jobs," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, an immigrant advocacy group.
But that isn't tragedy; it's a lachrymose sick joke, and it made me wonder if Arriaga and Iñárritu hadn't fallen into the fallacy of thinking that misery was somehow more real than happiness, death a greater subject than life.
If Deval Patrick can expose the fallacy of thinking that all words are "just words" by quoting words that resonate for all of us, so can Obama.
The fallacy of thinking that Albania will become Switzerland within 25 years shows some leading authorities' wishful thinking when it comes to failing to realize the tragic outcome that awaits the Balkan republic in the absence of major changes going forward.
The fallacy is in thinking that lowering tax rates at the top will generate such people.
But the fallacy is in thinking that the stock market climbs steadily, when in fact it lurches all around.
So according to Moore, the naturalistic fallacy consists in thinking that there is a naturalistic account of goodness.
The fallacy is not in thinking that the entire genome matters, but in thinking that an individual gene will matter, at least in a way that is large and intelligible enough for us to care about.
