The Manufacturing Fallacy

This is a historic fallacy.

Their vision was both naive and reckless.

This answer is powerful but naïve.

I have called this presumption a quasi Marxist fallacy.

And yes, on a scale from one to over trusting, I am pretty damn naive.

Here we've got naive subjects praising the robot Voice Nice robot.

To believe otherwise is to commit the fallacy of composition.

To consider Islam as a civilization that is not susceptible to change is an historical fallacy.

Google s (and my) hopes that it could help liberate China look a little naïve now.

An even more troublesome fallacy is that people tend to confuse price levels with rates of price change.

Even Hatoyama s defense minister, Toshimi Kitazawa, who had been prone to naïve remarks on the issue, appears to have come to his senses.

Under the gaze of the benevolent American journalist, the Iranian subjects are caricatures, described in simple terms and invested with naïve ideas about politics and the world.

The fallacies that really challenge the modern reader, however, are those that characterize arguments that today are widely accepted even in the most educated and enlightened circles. One of these, Bentham says, in a jarring juxtaposition, may be termed Anarchy preacher s fallacy or The Rights of Man fallacy.

However, many found it naive or hypocritical, in the face of recent violence against Africans as well as the discrimination that persists in other sectors of Indian society.

My innocent dreams of teaching the villagers English or educating them about the world now seemed ridiculously naïve I soon learned that Africa is rife with hidden danger.

Throughout the so called war on terror, the notion of a clash of civilization between Islam and the West has usually been dismissed as politically incorrect and intellectually wrongheaded.

The general case of this fallacy is the fallacy of composition what makes sense for each household or company individually does not necessarily add up to the good of the whole.

Today, such suggestions may seem audacious, naive, or impossible but, without such audacity, there is little hope for Afghanistan, Pakistan, or the region as a whole.

Ms. Kleitman (Israel), speaking in exercise of the right of reply, stated that the so called racist security wall was a misnomer, and added tendentious elements to an already complex conflict.

T.S. Eliot really said it for me and this should give you goose bumps we shall not cease from exploration and the end of our exploring shall be to return where we started and know the place for the first time.

But households in the least developed countries have many children an average of five per woman partly because fear of high childhood death rates leads them to overcompensate with large families.

Perhaps the reports were somewhat naïve in omitting any reference to the many rumors in Brazil regarding widespread corruption in relation to the contract (of course, US diplomats may have mentioned these issues elsewhere).

Helmut Kohl, one of the euro s principal parents, said in 1991 that the idea of sustaining an economic and monetary union over time without political union is a fallacy.

Current political and economic uncertainty has exacerbated the situation, driving policymakers to settle on simplistic solutions that, as Snowden made starkly apparent, can undermine the values that the West espouses.

ISTANBUL A simplistic (actually, naive) view of markets is that they exist almost in a state of nature, and that the best of all worlds is one where they are free to operate without government interference.

To consider Islam as a civilization that is not susceptible to change is an historical fallacy. Religious moderation, if not secularization, remains the key not only to social integration, but also to Muslims opportunity to influence Europe s future.

To confuse these different enterprises and pretend that they are the same is not only wrong, but dangerous, and deeply disappointing to those of us who still regard the US as a force for good.

The repeal of the tax break on overtime reflects another economic fallacy to which French Socialist politicians are deeply attached the lump of labor notion that underlay the most disastrous of their economic policies the 35 hour workweek, introduced in 2000.

Usage The usage of traditional values can in some cases imply that said values, in being traditional, are better than values that are non traditional but without giving a defense of why they might be better other than an appeal to tradition, which would be a fallacy of logic.

If you can ask questions about some things but not about others, eventually you start to wonder about that fact itself. Google s (and my) hopes that it could help liberate China look a little naïve now.

An even more troublesome fallacy is that people tend to confuse price levels with rates of price change. They think that arguments implying that home prices are higher in one country than another are also arguments that the rate of increase in those prices should be higher there.