The BRICS Fallacy

The Manufacturing Fallacy

This is a historic fallacy.

The Climate Change Debate s Willpower Fallacy

I have called this presumption a quasi Marxist fallacy.

Seventy years ago, John Maynard Keynes pointed out its fallacy.

To believe otherwise is to commit the fallacy of composition.

The fallacy of this approach lies in the Muslim Brotherhood s nature.

Keynes understood early on the fallacy of applying such mechanical rules.

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.

Also it proves the fallacy that war was necessary to topple Saddam.

But this is a fallacy, and responsible leaders should begin to think of alternatives.

Even Hillary Clinton, in her campaign for the US presidency, mistakenly embraced this fallacy.

The government must then raise taxes and the fallacy becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

This is a version of the fallacy that taxing companies ( capital ) spares ordinary people ( workers ).

Balance of nature (biological fallacy) A discredited concept of natural equilibrium in predator prey dynamics.

The Sudan firmly believes that the idea of a clash of civilizations is a fallacy.

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

Another, related, fallacy is the assumption that reforms can reap benefits only in the long run.

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

In Asia, China is exposing the fallacy of looking at state capitalism as a competing alternative to liberal capitalism.

Of course, this is a fallacy when resources are scarce, but even economists never thought that growth would continue forever.

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.

This fallacy is repeated so often by ignorant leaders in rich countries that it has become a major barrier to progress.

The national debt is a burden on future generations. This fallacy is repeated so often that it has entered the collective unconscious.

That is a fallacy, because such steps improve competitiveness only in the same measure as they reduce domestic prices vis à vis eurozone competitors.

The idea that the Arab Israeli peace process requires choosing between a Syrian or a Palestinian track has proved to be a dangerous fallacy.

And so the fallacy that we need this resource and we can actually make it in a time frame that is meaningful is not possible.

Moreover, there is a fallacy of composition if there are too many debt collectors, they will impoverish the very people on whom their own prosperity depends.

Another jobs fallacy is that when a job disappears in a Western country and turns up in India, it must have been exported by nefarious businessmen.

The concept of length of coastline, which seems to be so natural because it's given in many cases, is, in fact, complete fallacy there's no such thing.

The latter is indeed true but the former, asserted by many protectionists, is not. Even Hillary Clinton, in her campaign for the US presidency, mistakenly embraced this fallacy.

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.

Keynes pointed out the fallacy here while the income derived from production is, by definition, equal to the value of production, it does not follow that all this income will be spent.

The government cannot spend money it does not have. This fallacy often repeated by British Prime Minister David Cameron treats governments as if they faced the same budget constraints as households or companies.

The brain is simply the wrong context for the use of mental vocabulary the search for mental states of the brain is therefore a category error or a sort of fallacy of reasoning.

A direct reference theory, also called referentialism or referential realism, or referential fallacy, is a theory of language that claims that the meaning of a word or expression lies in what it points out in the world.

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.

Describing as a logical fallacy the recommendation at the beginning of paragraph 75 to impose a moratorium on executions, she said that that was like recommending the abolition of prisons because prison conditions were deplorable in some countries.

The national debt is deferred taxation. According to this oft repeated fallacy, governments can raise money by issuing bonds, but, because bonds are loans, they will eventually have to be repaid, which can be done only by raising taxes.

Turkey s recent tense relations with Iran demonstrate this assumption s basic fallacy, and point to a non ideological foreign policy that caters to Turkish national interests as defined by the country s political elite including the post Islamists in power today.

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.

The tight link existing between disasters, unsustainable development and weak governance points to the fallacy of the distinction that is usually made within the humanitarian community between disasters associated with natural hazards and other types of emergencies that necessitate humanitarian action.

The fallacy in the anti abortion argument lies in the shift from the scientifically accurate claim that the fetus is a living individual of the species Homo sapiens to the ethical claim that the fetus therefore has the same right to life as any other human being.

That criticism, of course, stems from the fallacy of seeing effectiveness only as a function of size. It disregards the fact that effectiveness is determined to an even greater extent by the legitimacy of a body's decision making, by its structure and by its working methods.