Sentence examples for motive fallacy from inspiring English sources

He invents a religion called Blytonism ("only those who worship Enid Blyton as the creator of the cosmos will go to Heaven"), denies that anyone has a right to their own opinion, and complains that "The Motive Fallacy is so common in politics that serious policy debate is almost non-existent".

As Nick Seddon, of the British think-tank Reform, points out, "It's a fallacy to think you can choke off the profit motive without losing momentum and innovation".And the current debate somehow overlooks the fact that for-profit companies are already delivering many support services in health, education, prisons and other public services.

Most of Bentham's fallacies have not become staples of fallacy theory but many of them show interesting insights into the motives and techniques of debaters (see e.g., Rudanko's (2005, 2009) analysis of the ad socordiam).

"Outright fallacy.

That's another fallacy.

See also naturalistic fallacy.

This is a fallacy.

That was a fallacy.

That's a fallacy.

"It's a fallacy.

Etymological fallacy klaxon!