Sentence examples for underlying fallacy from inspiring English sources

"We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority," the Court said.

As long as white supremacists, neo-Nazis, members of the alt-right, and members of any other group use vile and incendiary language, language that may be protected, it falls on the rest of us to talk back, to make it clear that such language is utterly unacceptable in civil society, and to point out the underlying fallacy of their hateful speech.

"There is a basic fallacy underlying the majority's actions and rhetoric today: the assumption of what is best for broadband providers is best for America.

The chief of many fallacies underlying arguments in favour of biometric cards seems to have been bought by Brown: that if we have a technology, we must use it.

His more manageable aim is to expose what he holds to be three major fallacies underlying God Is Not Great: that conflict fought in the name of religion is really always about faith; that "it is ultimately possible to know with confidence what is right and what is wrong without acknowledging the existence of God"; and that "atheist states are not actually atheist".

Neither the Civil War nor the Civil Rights movement that followed a century later directly addressed the underlying adherence to the fallacy of worth within our human family.

Again, analogously, one might argue that to formalize the argument in terms of probabilities, as is required in order to invoke the base rate fallacy, is to miss the more fundamental point underlying the pessimistic induction (Saatsi 2005b).

Gambler's fallacy may underlie their persistence with a previously punished decision.

However, the "ecologic fallacy" is the chief limitation of this approach: There can be underlying heterogeneity of exposure levels and covariates within the group or area assigned its population-level fixed value (Rothman and Greenland 1998).

Those rank statistics are however not immune to the effect of confounding variables, and data with an underlying categorical variable may display a false correlation that is somewhat akin to an ecological fallacy when the marginal distributions differ between the groups implied by this confounder.

Although confounding and the ecological fallacy due to the use of aggregate data cannot be excluded further research on potential underlying mechanisms of the association between SIDS and immunisation is warranted.