Sample Sentences for
fallacy
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    The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind — surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false? Had it not been exposed long ago as a fallacy?  (source)
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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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    No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men.  (source)
    fallacy = a common form of incorrect reasoning
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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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    That's a commonly held fallacy, and even ministers fall for it, but—†  (source)
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    The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies, not of achievements.†  (source)
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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)
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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)
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    And I'd have been failing there if I hadn't explained the fallacy in this mood thing you've suddenly developed.†  (source)
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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)
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    But the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasm a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest.†  (source)
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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)
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