Sentence examples for same fallacy from inspiring English sources

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Both these political arguments are guilty of the same fallacy.

Defining perfect games as an individual achievement falls victim to the exact same fallacy.

The reviewer, I am afraid, fell into the same fallacy she accuses Hustvedt of: seeing and hearing only what she wanted to see and hear.

Actually, as Miles Kimball points out, he's committing a basic microeconomic fallacy — a fallacy you usually identify with Econ 101 freshmen early in the semester (and as it happens the same fallacy committed by Rajan).

Alpher analyses Iran-Contra and Israel's arms supplies to Iran during the 1980-88 withwIraqIras as examples of the same fallacy, through a misplaced conviction that "a moderate faction involved in a power struggle in Iran would be strengthened...thereby paving the way to a strategic breakthrough in Israeli-Iranian relations".

Maybe the EU could learn a lesson rather than trying to teach one to the Swiss.John Salomon ZurichThe pleasure principleSIR – Those who want to improve condoms are victim to the same fallacy that benefits the makers of erectile-dysfunction therapies ("Sheathing Cupid's arrow", February 15th).

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Say's fallacy?) is something that opponents of Keynesian economics consistently invoke to this day, falling into exactly the same fallacies Keynes identified back in 1936.

There is a degree, for instance, that some Scottish nationalism falls prey to the same fallacies to which little Englandism is subject.

The decades-long debate with the same fallacies being constantly repeated ad nauseam could be an indication of this.

However, these expensive myths will continue to be stoutly defended by a number of vested interests, such as remuneration consultants, headhunters and the institutional shareholders who invest in public companies on our behalf, and whose senior executives also owe their wealth to the exact same fallacies.

It's the same logical fallacy that maintains inequality of power, access, and justice, promoted by the same kind of person the fallacy requires: An ignorant, well-to-do blowhard, untouched by the reality of the inequity, all too ready to trumpet it to his receptive audience.

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