Example sentences for: fallacy

How can you use “fallacy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The first fallacy is that the debate over Clinton's guilt is an up-or-down question.

  • This argument reflects a second fallacy: that the Republicans are out to get Clinton and that their vindication depends on his repudiation by Congress.

  • The first is a fairly technical (though consequential) analytical flaw, first identified in another context by Richard Dawkins and labeled "Washburn's fallacy."

  • A coffee bar full of Gotham's hippest logicians couldn't construct a better example of the begging-the-question fallacy than Anne Hollander's lead to "Black Was Beautiful."

  • There is a sharper contrast between EBM and the methods of clinical experience and observational studies, according to the EBM proponent: uncontrolled studies take certain reports of clinical endpoints as observation sentences - i.e., sentences that would be agreed to by all competent observers, sentences that are the checkpoint and basis for science - when in fact some of those reports do not count as observation sentences; and in other cases, uncontrolled studies may base their conclusions on observation sentences that are too tenuously linked to the claimed result, resulting in a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.


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