The BRICS Fallacy

The Manufacturing Fallacy

This is a historic fallacy.

The Climate Change Debate s Willpower Fallacy

But on average and almost certainly, we as a society, like all gamblers, will lose.

I have called this presumption a quasi Marxist fallacy.

But, because they do nothing to protect themselves against their real estate price risks, they are unwitting gamblers.

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

To believe otherwise is to commit the fallacy of composition.

Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited liability investment companies.

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.

People have enjoyed such huge capital gains over the past decade that most feel like gamblers on a long winning streak.

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.

Nevertheless, at a time when finance is under a cloud, the party that defends the freedom of the financial gamblers over the freedom of the individual is winning favor with the electorate like no other.

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.

The addictive potential is also identical just as gamblers and cocaine users can become compulsive, needing to gamble or snort more and more to get the same dopamine boost, so can men consuming pornography become hooked.

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.