Example sentences for: fallacy

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

  • 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."

  • The examples of Bradley and Bush also illustrate the fallacy of taking the SAT as a measure of intelligence or much of anything else-let alone of qualification to be president of the United States.

  • An opposing opinion claims striver scoring would entrench the fallacy that "demography is destiny."

  • Shepard's essay was pretty obviously intended as a response to economists--including Princeton's Alan Blinder, Morgan Stanley's Steve Roach, and me--who have recently been critical of the New Economy doctrine, among other things pointing out (though apparently to little effect) the dependence of that doctrine on the speedometer fallacy.

  • Is it not ironic then that they should still perpetuate so blatant a fallacy?


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