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logical fallacy

NOUN
  1. a fallacy in logical argumentation

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  • Steve Salerno, author of the book SHAM: How The Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, wrote in his review of The Secret on Amazon: One seldom encounters a better/worse example of the logical fallacy known as a posteriori reasoning. Boing Boing
  • Eugenics and ‘social Darwinism’ are perversions of evolution based upon logical fallacy and misapplication.
  • Predictably, the appeal to personal experience is another well-known logical fallacy.
  • The little logical fallacy that bugged me the most was the scene where the earthquake followed the Amtrak train.
  • They show how the mereological fallacy besets thinking in such different domains as perception, binding, memory, imagery, emotion, and volition.
  • It's the logical fallacy of extending someone's argument to ridiculous proportions and then criticizing the result. And I do not appreciate it.
  • Have you ever heard of the logical fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter hoc? BALANCE OF POWER
  • In any case, the wire service commits a logical fallacy known as the argumentum ad ignoratiam, or the appeal to ignorance. Tea and Mockery
  • I was under the impression that this was a forum where political issues could be discussed rationally: if you want me to be pedantic and point out every logical fallacy in every reply I've received then I'll do that.
  • It exemplifies what linguists term the etymological fallacy. Times, Sunday Times
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