The Manufacturing Fallacy

But this is a fallacy.

That's a common fallacy.

This is a historic fallacy.

Such allegations are mere falsifications.

Couple of incendiaries, these old buildings go up like cellophane.

I have called this presumption a quasi Marxist fallacy.

Yes, young man... . ..all very convincing, but for one obvious fallacy.

To believe otherwise is to commit the fallacy of composition.

The worst fallacy is trying to suggest that we deserve such actions.

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

And so the immediate response is Well, therefore for new products you just don't get out of the building at all, and that's just a fallacy.

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

Given this understanding, there is a fallacy that has emerged where certain groups are deemed corrupt and everyone else is good .

Well, while this idea of course seems reasonable in our established oriented world view, it is unfortunately another fallacy.

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.

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.

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.

We would consider it to be a very serious matter if Washington were to decide to give asylum to Posada Carriles or if it were to adduce sophistic legal arguments to allow him to stay in the United States.

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.

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.

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.

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.