Sentence examples for intellectual fallacy from inspiring English sources

The argument that design is indicated by the fine-tuning of the universe as a habitat suitable for life is based on an intellectual fallacy of assigning probability to a unique event.

My Christian friends didn't want to hear that the entire New Testament might be a fable or that the concept of an all-loving, all-powerful God was possibly an intellectual fallacy.

Mill drew a division between the moral and the intellectual causes of fallacies.

But it doesn't absolve Heritage; all it shows is that much of macroeconomics, especially but not only at Chicago, has retrogressed intellectually, to such an extent that famous economists repeat 1930-vintage fallacins in perfect ignorance of the hard intellectual work that showed, three generations ago, that they are indeed fallacies.

It is the intellectual errors, the actual taking of insufficient evidence as sufficient, that is a fallacy.

78 79 Many of the processes described above would be integral to this initiative: a knowledge and understanding of reasoning and decision-making theories, of cognitive and affective biases, of logical fallacies and of standards for clarity, precision, accuracy, relevance, logicalness, intellectual humility and other attributes.

"Outright fallacy.

That's another fallacy.

That's a fallacy.

"It's a fallacy.

Etymological fallacy klaxon!