It is fallacious to argue that because no one is storming the castle, no real injustice exists.
As Hume and Kant pointed out, however, it is fallacious to derive a proposition with existential import from a tautology, and it is now generally agreed that, from a tautology alone, it is impossible to derive any significant proposition.
By the same token, as I noted earlier, it is fallacious to assume that self-sufficiency and economic independence are desirable.
It's fallacious to think that simply the statement of a problem, and the provision of an appallingly insensitive, brutal "solution" to this problem, is an ethical option.
The authors noted that the "sticky fingers" problem is valid in some reactions, but argue that it would be fallacious to conclude that all reactions have this problem.
Therefore, it would be fallacious to derive from "'b' denotes something" that "'b' denotes something that exists".
From an 'audit culture' perspective the collection of data about a particular practice has tangible and immediate effects [ 20]; it is fallacious and potentially harmful to dichotomize frontline practice and the managerial structures that command, control and facilitate it.
It is fallacious for U.S. military commanders and Administration officials to attribute decreased levels of violence in Iraq to "The Surge," since the Iraqi population has changed dramatically.
But they haven't provided any persuasive analysis to back up this argument, and history suggests that it is fallacious.
But to suggest that there's a correlation between degree grade and potential for teaching, that someone with a third-class degree is incapable of doing it, is fallacious.
