How To Use Logical fallacy In A Sentence
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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
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Eugenics and ‘social Darwinism’ are perversions of evolution based upon logical fallacy and misapplication.
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Predictably, the appeal to personal experience is another well-known logical fallacy.
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The little logical fallacy that bugged me the most was the scene where the earthquake followed the Amtrak train.
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They show how the mereological fallacy besets thinking in such different domains as perception, binding, memory, imagery, emotion, and volition.
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It's the logical fallacy of extending someone's argument to ridiculous proportions and then criticizing the result. And I do not appreciate it.
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Have you ever heard of the logical fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter hoc?
BALANCE OF POWER
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In any case, the wire service commits a logical fallacy known as the argumentum ad ignoratiam, or the appeal to ignorance.
Tea and Mockery
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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.
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It exemplifies what linguists term the etymological fallacy.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's important to realise that this perspective commits a basic logical fallacy of begging the question: i.e. presenting a premise as a conclusion.
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I wouldn’t blame you; this is a commonly-held belief known as the etymological fallacy.
2010 January « Motivated Grammar
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Your argument is still emotional, and still rooted purely in logical fallacy.
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Other letters offer versions of a common logical fallacy: because Hitler had small beginnings, any tinhorn fanatic is likely to become a Hitler… when in fact most will not (and it is problematic to identify which if any might).
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It's the old post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) logical fallacy.
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Though, I would recommend you put more effort in than you did in this half-assed logical fallacy you call an argument.
Think Progress » After hottest decade in history, senators attempt to outlaw science of global warming.
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It is a logical fallacy to analogize the embodiment of climate theory and processes (i.e., climate software) as scientific instruments.
Climate Science is an Experimental Science | Serendipity
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It turns out to be a technical term in the study of logic and describes a specific type of logical fallacy, a form of circular reasoning.
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This use of data at two levels of analysis seeks to minimize the problem of ecological fallacy.
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It sounds like a classic example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc logical fallacy.
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It turns out to be a technical term in the study of logic and describes a specific type of logical fallacy, a form of circular reasoning.
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This use of data at two levels of analysis seeks to minimize the problem of ecological fallacy.
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This is based on a logical fallacy, which is that the population of those who would own guns if they were rare is a representative sample of the population who would own guns if they were plentiful.
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If only to illustrate that I am useful for more than lounge-lizard renditions of Mahler's 2nd, I will concur with Matthew that ignoration is in the OED and has a use fitting for most things that pass for political dialog these days: Ignoration of the Elench -- and anglicized version of ignoratio elenchi, which is the logical fallacy of refuting an argument that was not made or is irrelevant to its professed purpose.
Signal to noise
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Surely, they do not mean to do that, because such an argument is a logical fallacy.
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An attack on someones character isn't a logical fallacy when the discussion is * about said person's character*.
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If only to illustrate that I am useful for more than lounge-lizard renditions of Mahler's 2nd, I will concur with Matthew that ignoration is in the OED and has a use fitting for most things that pass for political dialog these days: Ignoration of the Elench -- and anglicized version of ignoratio elenchi, which is the logical fallacy of refuting an argument that was not made or is irrelevant to its professed purpose.
Signal to noise
