Both Uses of
fallacy
in
Starship Troopers
- These kitchen illustrations demolish the Marxian theory of value — the fallacy from which the entire magnificent fraud of communism derives — and to illustrate the truth of the common-sense definition as measured in terms of use.†
Chpt 6 *fallacy = a mistaken belief; or a common form of incorrect reasoning
- This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted ....and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears.†
Chpt 6