Example sentences for: fallacy

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

  • I guess my question is whether Mr. Shepard is willing, even now, to concede that it is a fallacy to invoke unmeasured productivity as the source of our good numbers.

  • Many magazines employ fact-checkers (whose work is premised on the books-are-more-reliable fallacy).

  • An article explodes the fallacy of safe sex.

  • It suggests, in particular, that what might seem to a naive commentator like a natural conclusion--if productivity growth in the steel industry reduces the number of jobs for steelworkers, then productivity growth in the economy as a whole reduces employment in the economy as a whole--may well involve a crucial fallacy of composition.

  • This idea that harmony between the races is impossible--let's call it the "National Review fallacy"--rests largely on confusion about a form of natural selection known as "kin selection."


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