Sentence examples for seem fallacious from inspiring English sources

Modes of human reasoning that are (or seem) fallacious have been studied in cognitive psychology.

Although some maintain that certain patterns of inference from an "is" to an "ought" are valid (see Thomson 1990, 1 33, for discussion), inferring that something is even prima facie intrinsically wrong from the particular fact that it is not natural certainly seems fallacious.

Granted, there are plenty of fans who do go for it, but blaming a lack of atmosphere on the day-trippers seems fallacious, and getting pissed off about a tiny, tiny minority of people in half and half shirts seems, in all honesty, a little bit xenophobic and nativist, especially when some of your longest-serving fans are bumming the place out even more so.

But upon further inspections of his paintings, that line of argument "seems pretty fallacious".

It seemed a bit fallacious to assume that people fighting to earn a living wage and spend their free time organizing rallies don't dream, or that there's virtue in being broke in America.

And his logic can seem like circular — to the point of fallacious — reasoning.

(However, see Gill (1996, 81, n. 134), who contends that D1A12 and D1A13 are fallacious).) D1A9 seems to commit the fallacy of equivocation (see Rickless (2007, 121 123).

That the living ever dwell at the frontier of time seems to encourage a fallacious sense that the hour is getting late.

Early fallacious applications of Darwin's theory (e.g., Spencer and social evolution) seem to suggest that the theory has a racist, sexist past (see also Eugenics movement).

Bertrand Russell, during his early Hegelian phase, accepted the argument; once exclaiming: "Great God in Boots!—the ontological argument is sound!" However, he later criticized the argument, asserting that "the argument does not, to a modern mind, seem very convincing, but it is easier to feel convinced that it must be fallacious than it is to find out precisely where the fallacy lies".

Pierrehumbert carefully dissects one of the arguments that Levitt and Dubner seem to subscribe to — that solar cells, because they are dark, actually contribute to global warming — and shows it to be fallacious.