Synonym: false belief. Similar words: fall away, fall asleep, legacy, privacy, fall, accuracy, efficacy, democracy. Meaning: ['fæləsɪ] n. a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning.
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(61) It's the logical fallacy of extending someone's argument to ridiculous proportions and then criticizing the result. And I do not appreciate it.
(62) The old illustrator never let his pupils fall for the pathetic fallacy, that empty barrels are lonely.
(63) It's the logical fallacy of extending someone's argument to ridiculous proportions and then criticizing the result.
(64) If one that England squad had the integrity to offer an explanation or apology for their pathetic fallacy World Cup campaign in South Africa, I don't care about any of it.
(65) In his view, Luddism was, indeed, a fallacy when productivity improvements were still on the relatively flat, or slowly rising, part of the exponential curve.
(66) Third, it’s really important not to get caught up in the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
(67) Also common in the natural sciences, the technicist (n. ) fallacy mistakenly identifies the discipline as a whole with certain parts of its technical implementation.
(68) This was the fallacy, exploded by Henry Hazlitt, that high wages promoted prosperity by providing workers with "enough to buy back the product."
(69) Your major premise was based on a faulty assumption---Classic fallacy.
(70) Now there is a half-truth in the "backed-up" demand fallacy, just as there was in the broken-window fallacy.
(71) The "Europeans made the theory so it must be racist" nonsense is a idiotic logical fallacy.
(72) Because of the usage of the straw man fallacy, Kulak is so worried about attacking things, he does not take the time to show both sides.
(73) Even though most of us recognize the fallacy of placing too great a value on appearance, our desire for physical beauty is so ingrained in us that we cannot disassociate ourselves from it.
(74) A key fallacy in this thinking, Hazlitt explained, is that it ignores the incomes, the wealth, and the jobs that are "destroyed by the taxes imposed to pay for that spending."
(75) Thepolitics may be intractable, but they are based on a fallacy.
(76) The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
(77) The fear that the country will become a hive of "jihadi training camps" after a withdrawal is based on a basic fallacy.
(78) Our representative justly and forcefully refuted the other side's fallacy.
(79) The third part elaborate the theory and the current significance of the interpenetration and in-terembracing of the truth and the fallacy.
(80) This fallacy gets its name from the Latin phrase "post hoc, ergo propter hoc," which translates as "after this, therefore because of this."
(81) I play a game with the advertisements I'm exposed to... I try to figure out what logical fallacy they're using!
(82) You commit a fallacy of non sequitur when you site in support of a conclusion something that's true but irrelevant.
(83) It exposes the fallacy of short-term industrial gain at long-term environmental expense.
(84) He had written poems about his affair with Agnieszka,(http://sentencedict.com/fallacy.html) but his way with pathetic fallacy meant that even Basia could read them without guessing their true provenance.
(85) He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.
(86) This is a clear example of the logical fallacy called " affirming the consequent".
(87) So the fallacy of fast talking, and the list of fallacies are down there just for you amusement Okay here's a fallacy, well deductively valid argument and here's a fallacy that looks like it.
(88) After coming up with this egregious fallacy, Bernoulli topped it by blithely assuming that every individual's marginal utility of money moves in the very same constant proportion, b.
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