Sentence examples for pervasive fallacy from inspiring English sources
In this way, classical liberalism exemplifies 'the most pervasive fallacy of philosophical thinking'Contextext and Thought', LW5, 5).
There's this pervasive fallacy out there that it's the weak that are depressed, that it's the weak to commit suicide -- that inherently it is an act of cowardice.
Already adept at withholding information -- this week's budget is an evasive Cliffs Notes of the real document, not out until April 3 -- the Bush administration is also benefiting from a pervasive Washington fallacy: Since the new president seems a better guy than Mr. Clinton, he deserves brownie points for character, whatever he's doing.
Our society is predicated on this pervasive "naturalist fallacy" that some win, some lose and those who make it deserve it.
It's that pervasive, if accidental, fallacy that's at the root of the wider society's perceptions of black people today.
Either that or what happened was that he felt himself pulled into a discussion that's been so distorted by this pervasive and stifling either/or fallacy that confronting it actually makes people get nervous and say weird things.
Psychologists call this the planning fallacy -- a pervasive tendency to underestimate how long it will take to do just about anything -- and it can be attributed to several different biases.
And it is a fallacy that the pervasive rates of assaults are perpetrated by a few bad seeds.
The problem with the entry of the now pervasive word "narrative" into the parlance is its congeniality to the straw-man fallacy: "Narratives" being matters of "construction," they can be constructed in a manner that makes them easy to refute.
