Sentence examples for this kind of fallacy from inspiring English sources

Descartes illustrated this kind of fallacy with the example of our belief in the Bible being justified because it is the word of God, and our belief in God's existence being justified because it is written in the Bible.[2] The two propositions lead back and forth to each other, in a circle, each having only the other for support.

This kind of ad hominem fallacy can be seen as falling under the broader ignoratio elenchi category because what is proved is not what is needed.

The historian David H. Fischer identified this kind of rhetoric as "the fallacy of equivocation".

It is tempting to interpret this view as an appeal to a kind of fallacy of composition; just as someone who is both good and an author is not necessarily a good author, so too something that is both mentally asserted and vocally uttered is not necessarily "said" (asserted with utterance).

The advantage of the stock examples of fallacies is that they are designed to highlight what the mistake associated with each kind of fallacy is supposed to be.

By way of example, we show here another kind of fallacy in these medical studies, namely, the phenomenon of SNP-SNP interaction wrongly applied to haploid data in a breast cancer study.

"There is the fallacy with this kind of work that you can reach a kind of ground zero," he warned.

But the most significant fallacy within this kind of pseudo-science goes to the heart of our current knowledge about human evolution.

Some say that this kind of mistake is not really a fallacy because to ask a question is not to make an argument.

Modern versions of this kind of argument take it as a fallacy to infer a proposition to be true because there is no evidence against it (see Krabbe, 1995).

But this summer's disaster in the Gulf clearly revealed the fallacy of this kind of thinking.