Example sentences for: fallacy

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

  • (Economists call the SBA's technique of sorting firms by class size in a dynamic situation the "regression fallacy."

  • 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."

  • Of course, we don't want to get caught up in the intentional fallacy, and a work of art of strength should be open to a variety of interpretations, but I think there's a danger of missing the plot (and incidentally patronizing African culture) if we deny Ofili's Madonna its subversiveness, iconoclasm, and sheer naughtiness.

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

  • The British Phonographic Industry's anti-piracy unit has 384 titles by the group in its collection, compared with 320 by the Beatles, 317 by the Rolling Stones, and 301 by Bob Dylan (the subject of "Browser" column on "the bootleg fallacy").


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