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The entire argument is built on a fallacy.fallacy = a mistaken belief
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It's a fallacy of composition to believe that because each member of Congress tends a parcel of the nation, the whole Congress tends the whole nation.fallacy = a common form of incorrect reasoning
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Her essay is entitled, "The Fallacy of Finding Your One True Love."fallacy = a mistaken belief
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"The fallacy of composition" is a logical error — a mistaken belief that what seems good for an individual will still be good when others do the same thing. (source)fallacy = a common form of incorrect reasoning
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One of the first fallacies of my life. (source)fallacies = misconceptions resulting from incorrect reasoning
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Pollack would say that the fallacy of your thinking lies in its narrow human perspective. (source)fallacy = a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
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He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. He realized, nevertheless, that it ought never to have occurred to him. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak. (source)fallacy = a common form of incorrect reasoning
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"It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man."† (source)fallacies = mistaken beliefs; or common forms of incorrect reasoning
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No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. (source)fallacy = a common form of incorrect reasoning
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he will be—' and stopped, with that forlorn little boy invisible between them who had come there eight years ago with the overall jumper over what remained of his silk and broadcloth, who had become the youth in the uniform—the tattered hat and the overalls—of his ancient curse, who had become the young man with a young man's potence yet was still that lonely child in his parchment-and-denim hairshirt, and your grandfather speaking the lame vain words, the specious and empty fallacies which we call comfort, thinking Better that he were dead, better that be had never lived then thinking what vain and empty recapitulation that would be to her if he were to say it, who doubtless had already sa† (source)fallacies = mistaken beliefs; or common forms of incorrect reasoning
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Again, it is the church who points out the fallacy of this reasoning.† (source)fallacy = a mistaken belief; or a common form of incorrect reasoning
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When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth.† (source)fallacies = mistaken beliefs; or common forms of incorrect reasoning
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That's a commonly held fallacy, and even ministers fall for it, but—† (source)fallacy = a mistaken belief; or a common form of incorrect reasoning
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Throughout his plays the acute social critics, the people who are not taken in by accepted fallacies, are buffoons, villains, lunatics or persons who are shamming insanity or are in a state of violent hysteria.† (source)fallacies = mistaken beliefs; or common forms of incorrect reasoning
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He was vulnerable there, because to me they were all pretty much alike—Voltaire and Moliere and the laws of motion and the Magna Carta and the Pathetic Fallacy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles—and I worked indiscriminately on all of them.† (source)Fallacy = a mistaken belief; or a common form of incorrect reasoning
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Now and then a reporter was present at one of his meetings, and the headlines (though they were not very large) indicated that George F. Babbitt had addressed Cheering Throng, and Distinguished Man of Affairs had pointed out the Fallacies of Doane.† (source)Fallacies = mistaken beliefs; or common forms of incorrect reasoning
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