fallacies

Meaning

of Fallacy

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Examples

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. G. K. Chesterton

Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it. Hannah Arendt

We speak glibly of conservation education, but what do we mean by it? If we mean indoctrination, then let us be reminded that it is just as easy to indoctrinate with fallacies as with facts. If we mean to teach the capacity for independent judgement, then I am appalled by the magnitude of the task. Aldo Leopold

It is moreover to weaken in those who profess this Religion a pious confidence in its innate excellence and the patronage of its Author; and to foster in those who still reject it, a suspicion that its friends are too conscious of its fallacies to trust it to its own merits. James Madison

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. Randal Marlin

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. Milton Friedman