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Call it the fallacy of immaculate causation.

The American Spectator's Quin Hillyer calls it "the fallacy of the master debater" — the belief that elections turn on dramatic rhetorical confrontations, in which the smarter and better-spoken candidate exposes his rival as a tongue-tied boob.

There's so much to explore and My Fair Lady is ripe for it; the fallacy of superiority by way of breeding always needs a look, and Higgins' misogyny and privilege is the story of so many politicians, academics and leaders – and boyfriends and husbands and fathers – across the country.

There's so much to explore and My Fair Lady is ripe for it; the fallacy of superiority by way of breeding always needs a look, and Higgins' misogyny and privilege is the story of so many politicians, academics and leaders - and boyfriends and husbands and fathers - across the country.

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It's the Fallacy of Merely Existing.

In each case it involves the fallacy of defining the multiple and shifting identities present in every human being in terms of a single, unchanging essence.

As Tom Lifka, a U.C.L.A. assistant vice chancellor who oversees admissions, said, "It's the fallacy of 209 that you can immediately move to a system that doesn't take account of race and that treats everybody fairly".

While that was a wise choice on his part, it shows the fallacy of the National Rifle Association's position that allowing everyone to carry arms is the only way to make us all safer.

As Tom Lifka, a U.C.L.A. assistant vice chancellor who oversees admissions, said, "It's the fallacy of 209 that you can immediately move to a system that doesn't take account of race and that treats everybody fairly". Lifka said he was confident that U.C.L.A.'s current system could withstand legal scrutiny.

The concept can be traced as far back as Aristotle, but HW Fowler, whose entry on begging the question is listed under the Latin petitio principii (assumption of the basis), defines it as "the fallacy of founding a conclusion on a basis that as much needs to be proved as the conclusion itself", giving as an example "foxhunting is not cruel, since the fox enjoys the fun".

It's the fallacy of "To Kill a Mockingbird," a movie that never fails to move me but that advances a troubling falsehood: the notion that well-educated Christian whites were somehow victimized by white trash and forced to live within a social system that exploited and denigrated its black citizens, and that the privileged white upper class was somehow held hostage to these struggling individuals.

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