Sentence examples for old fallacy from inspiring English sources

The fact looks uncomfortably like the old fallacy, that coincidence implies causality.

Fears that the third world will steal rich-world output and jobs are based on the old fallacy that an increase in one country's output must be at the expense of another's.

The only justification offered for supporting the pay freeze is that "jobs must be the priority", thereby buying into the hoary old fallacy that increasing the wages of the low-paid risks unemployment.

A 3G service has just been launched in Austria with wide geographical coverage.Stephen TimmsMinister for e-commerce and competitivenessDepartment of Trade and IndustryLondonScent the wrong waySIR – Sadly, you repeat the old fallacy that l-limonene has a lemon odour ("Telling right from left", September 21st).

Less convincingly, we have had the descant of a reminder of the opium wars, as if Shaikh was a reincarnation of the East India Company, and relativists trotting out the tired old fallacy that human rights abuses in the west and executions in the US disbar us from protesting at the way the trial was conducted.

A.V. Club's Noel Murray graded the episode with a C-, explaining he didn't want to watch a season one cast-off, and that some of the episode moments were "generic[ally] embarrassing", such as when Olivia tricked someone into telling her Rusk was sick and when Rusk failed to kill his wife after falling into the "old Fallacy Of The Talking Killer" cliche.

But even so, the fact that at this late date, with Europe very much in what amounts to a depression, the old fallacies are still being trotted out is very, well, depressing.

Let me spare you the usual economist's sermon on the virtues of free trade, except to say this: although old fallacies about international trade have been making a comeback lately (yes, Senator Charles Schumer, that means you), it is as true as ever that the U.S. economy would be poorer and less productive if we turned our back on world markets.

It has been a rude shock to see so many economists with good reputations recycling old fallacies — like the claim that any rise in government spending automatically displaces an equal amount of private spending, even when there is mass unemployment — and lending their names to grossly exaggerated claims about the evils of short-run budget deficits.

"And when crime rates drop, people forget about it and we go back to the old fallacies".

(The oldest fallacy of all is to attribute characters' views to their creator).