Sentence examples for on a fallacy from inspiring English sources

In defence of this decision, Miss Mulyani has one limp argument that consumers have to get used to fuel prices going both up and down and one unanswerable one that, so close to an election, no one will tackle subsidies.The politics may be intractable, but they are based on a fallacy.

It's founded on a fallacy.

But Murray's argument trades on a fallacy.

But it's based on a fallacy.

Except that the UCI's reasoning was based on a fallacy.

"The problem," he wrote, "is that every part of this argument is based on a fallacy".

"This is probably built on a bit of a fallacy isn't it?" he said.

It's completely misleading, this idea that people live comfortably on benefits, a fallacy".

But the comment by the group's staff lawyer, Armen Merjian, that most people living with AIDS "have no choice but to be on the dole" is a fallacy.

Since upholders of SDF maintain that fallacies are invalid arguments, Massey's asymmetry thesis has the consequence that no argument can be convicted of being a fallacy on logical grounds.[6] The informal logic approach to fallacies is taken in Johnson and Blair's Logical Self-Defence, a textbook first published in 1977.

However regarding the specific case of Libya, the notion that we should not act to confront injustice and do good in situation A because we haven't acted in a similar manner for Situation B, C, and et al. is simply a fallacy on both a rational as well as a moral level.