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Fallacy is an error in reasoning that does not originate in improper logical form. Arguments committing informal fallacies may be formally valid, but still...

commitments I haven’t had time for'. Lean Logic, (2016), p. 472, entry on Time Fallacies Holism [is] the art — in contrast with reductionism — of seeing a complex...

uncertainty even in so-called risk situations. "Risk and Uncertainty: A Fallacy of Large Numbers" Scientia (April-May 1963) I will tell you a secret. Economists...

it does not go without saying that in our examination we must avoid the fallacy that in the last decades has frequently been used as a substitute for the...

purposes would come a growth of machinery of courts and congresses, at first informal and private, but gradually taking shape in more definite and more public...

Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, The Science of Discworld (2014), 41. The fallacy in Hollywood is that if you’re making a 'feminist’ story, the woman kicks...

you declare that this raw material arose naturally you fall into another fallacy, For the whole universe might thus have been its own creator, and have...

1922–1928, p. 3462 ISBN 0835206939 Let them [Socialists] abandon the utter fallacy, the grotesque, erroneous, fatal blunder of believing that by limiting...

understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy. p. 89 One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community...

to religious interests and aims over others or make religious belief an informal qualification for public office. Of course, secularism in the latter sense...

DEMOCRACY?--ARE WE A DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE?; Democracy not an American Idea--The Fallacy of the Democratic Party--Its Failure and Final Extinction--A Republic Sustained...

scientists in The Lancet, which called the herd-immunity approach a “dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence”. Epidemiologists can estimate the proportion...

D'Souza, What's So Great About America (2003), Ch. 4: The Reparations Fallacy. Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought...

itself. Chapter 3 (p. 23) Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same...

but rarely risk their lives to protect an adult man. p. 230. One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean "power" and "self-fulfillment...

Lazarus, a former law clerk to Justice Blackmun. The second is the logical fallacy in the bare assertion “if the right of privacy means anything, it is. ...

colonial period. This attitude, which I characterize as the Progressive Fallacy, allows American Indians victim status only. And while its adherents suffer...