| 单词 | fallacy |
| 例句 | “Don’t try to boldface your way through this one. That’s a fallacy. You taught me that yourself.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The school had been imposing: a fallacy of glass and steel against the dusty expanse of the north shore clearing, like a middle finger thrown into the sky, built in record time. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The misconception is so common that it has been given a name: the etymological fallacy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “It’s one of the great fallacies, it seems to me,” said Lee, “that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They lean with the prevailing winds and employ every fallacy of logic in order to editorialize harmoniously with popular prejudices. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z To appreciate the fallacy, consider a visitor from Outer Space who dropped in on Earth in the year 3000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And contrary to countless barroom conversations, the law of large numbers doesn’t imply the gambler’s fallacy: that a head is more likely after a string of tails. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, I don’t subscribe to the obvious fallacy that every society promptly adopts every innovation that would be useful for it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Asserting that De Soto’s visit caused the subsequent collapse of the Caddo and Coosa may be only the old logical fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z As mentioned in Chapter 2, however, it should be carefully distinguished from the gambler’s fallacy, to which it bears a superficial resemblance. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasing a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Doing so is sometimes termed the “broad base” fallacy, and we’ve already cited a couple of instances of it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Had it not been exposed long ago as a fallacy? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This doesn't merely refer to the fallacy often posited by feminists that a world dominated and run by women would indeed be a more peaceful place. "Y: The Last Man" presents a fascinating dystopia that probes the artifacts of our gendered world 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z There’s an egocentric fallacy in a choose-your-own-adventure: that you alone, represented by the protagonist, have volition and the ability to change your decisions. ‘Bandersnatch,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ and the Myth of Certainty 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z While for some people religion may be associated with the irrational, it is also associated with what religion scholar Doug Cowan calls "the good, moral and decent fallacy." Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s the imitative fallacy, Creative Writing 101 stuff that would make Kenny cringe. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: What About Bob? 2013-06-03T12:47:01Z The Art of Thinking Clearly offers 99 fallacies that stop people from leading successful lives. Guardian Books podcast: Michael Rosen follows Emil to Berlin 2013-04-26T13:24:00Z The moors are almost too wild, too dramatic, too naturally Wagnerian to handle, and pathetic fallacy needs to be avoided at every turn. Author, author: Joanna Briscoe 2011-07-08T21:55:25Z Now and then someone on EastEnders remembers the concept of pathetic fallacy and turns on a bloody big hose. Grace Dent's world of lather 2010-06-25T23:10:00Z "It might be a fallacy, but I've got this sense that if you put actors into the world they're meant to be inhabiting you'll get a more truthful performance," he says. Kevin Macdonald: "I didn't understand Hollywood" 2011-03-17T21:30:00Z As someone who once had a “sensitivity to juniper,” I empathize with the tellers of these tawdry tales, even as I recognize their underlying fallacy. You swore off tequila for good. Here’s how to enjoy the alcohol that once betrayed you. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z “I was hoping to open some doors and windows, let some fresh air in, on the fallacies this country was promoting,” she said. At the Aldrich Museum, the Coyote Takes the Lead 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z There are other fallacies about journalism in this show that stars a journalist. To the crimes of "Inventing Anna," add atrocious journalism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z We are victims of priming and stereotyping, confirmation bias and the conjunction fallacy, probabilistic incoherence, the default effect and goodness only knows what else. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova – review 2013-01-04T15:19:54Z We should always resist the fallacy that we learn something essential about actors as human beings from the roles they play on-screen, but beneath that fallacy lies a thorny problem. “Boulevard”: In Robin Williams’ tormented final role, the beloved star still doesn’t know what he’s looking for 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The fallacy underlying controversies, such as that Mr. Erlanger here describes, is that popular works of contemporary literature are in need... Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z “There is no magical decade where everything was great. It’s just a fallacy to suggest that that exists.” Past and present meet ‘Last Night in Soho’ 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Do what your heart tells you but don't do what society is whispering in your ear, especially when it's based on such fallacy. New book explores the not-so-miserable only child 2013-06-18T16:10:10Z It also corrects the fallacy about women in the movie industry during the period known as New Hollywood. Don’t Cry, Resist! Movies From a Female Revolution 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Austin’s mission is to demolish what he calls the “descriptive fallacy” – the idea that all language does is describe the world. How to pick (and stop) an argument 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z For starters, there’s a basic fallacy in that argument: you could prove that Louis CK is the most reprehensible person on Earth and it would not make Limbaugh any better. Rush Limbaugh, Louis CK, and the Somebody-Else-Did-Something-Bad-Once-Too Argument 2012-03-14T14:44:38Z "Some people may call it 'an elimination'-- but that's just a fallacy that goes back to prehistoric kindergarten." "Dancing with the Stars": Bristol Palin, monkey-style 2010-10-19T12:30:00Z They are worth discussing, as these fallacies can be significant barriers to getting the most pleasure out of drinking wine. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Even Marvel seemed prey to a longstanding Hollywood fallacy that while women will watch movies about men, men will not watch movies about women. Can ‘Captain Marvel’ Fix Marvel’s Woman Problem? 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The movie nevertheless operates on the fallacy that the mere fact of being concerned with a band suffices to generate interest. ‘Viena and the Fantomes’ Review: A Roadie and a Bad Band 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z “Approval Junkie” wants to suggest a certain self-awareness about the fallacy of craving outside validation. Review: Getting a Moral Fix From ‘Approval Junkie’ 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z It would be a corny moment in many TV shows, a classic example of the pathetic fallacy. Enlightened: The Best New Show No One But You, If You Are Bothering to Read This Post, Is Watching 2011-11-08T15:44:38Z The fallacy of indispensability snares a lot of us, not just the ones with tough parental legacies like yours. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Navigating her mom’s careless nature 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z It's a fallacy that a new play demands an entirely new subject or an entirely new narrative. Playwright Simon Stephens: 'The same old agonies return to haunt you' 2011-04-08T11:18:34Z I’ve begun to think of arguments like this — which are primarily made by adults who oppose gender-affirming treatment for minors — as the Puberty Sucks fallacy. Perspective | Please stop insisting trans kids are just struggling with puberty 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s also a fallacy to think that our films are about a particular incident. In ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ looking for the last word on a notoriously unresolved story 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Rushdie said he wanted to correct some of the fallacies that surfaced over the years, such as his supposed stay with Ian McEwan, when in fact he only met the writer once for dinner. Salman Rushdie's fatwa grows thin 2010-07-23T10:53:00Z Glass also addresses the fallacy that all he does is play the same chords over and over. Perspective | If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z All of that is a mix of fallacy and wishful thinking. Perspective | The photos of Greece on fire are shocking. But shock doesn’t always lead to change. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z “There’s a fallacy that Black plays don’t sell, and it’s totally wrong,” Santiago-Hudson said. Broadway Is Brimming With Black Playwrights. But for How Long? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Her “Saturday School Lesson” is a recurring digital series in which she dissects recent comments and direct messages she’s received, with annotations to illuminate their fallacies. ‘Dear White Women’: The Public Classroom of Rachel Cargle 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Even more intriguingly, this means both are based on what is almost certainly an historical fallacy. Centurion kicks off British sword and sandals film wave 2010-04-22T22:15:00Z Getting facts ahead of fallacies in medicine is hard enough, but with sex there are many more layers. Sex Hurts. Help! 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Alongside the strained pathetic fallacies, you'll notice that the above also carries the whiff of creative writing course in that modish present tense. Not the Booker prize: Advice for Strays 2010-09-27T12:49:00Z I am not sold, but maybe I’m falling for the fallacy of placing too much importance on something just because it’s what’s familiar. Motherlode Blog: Can Virtual Schools Really Replace Classrooms? 2011-11-14T16:53:04Z What the New Critics called “the biographical fallacy” is always irresistible, but it’s especially tempting when dealing with a writer who aggressively encouraged it. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z You have now started to read an essay about boredom, in open defiance of the pathetic fallacy, not to mention Jesus' famous comeback to Satan: "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." In praise of boredom, at the movies and in life 2011-06-08T01:01:00Z The fallacy about therapy and relationships is always very cut-and-dry and clean. Zachary Quinto on his Tribeca comedy “Aardvark”: “It’s a film about people who are lost to themselves” 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The idea of a partnership of equals is, at best, fallacy, and at worst, fantasy. Teaming Up, Together (Drake and Future) or Apart (Ryan Adams and Taylor Swift) 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Our primary fallacy in reading about these exploits is to remain incredulous. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z It manages to be a real crowd-pleaser despite a signature song that warns of the fallacy of Hollywood endings. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Because that’s the central fallacy: the belief that monogamy is harder for men than for women. A strong libido and bored by monogamy: the truth about women and sex 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z But even, as noted in How to Be Single, the independence of Carrie Bradshaw and her pals was something of a fallacy as they spent the majority of their time talking about men. The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Instead, his focus is oftentimes squandered on overwrought exegesis, and his interpretive frenzy frequently substitutes rigor for mere stylistic cleverness, even fallacy. How did American artists respond to the horror of WWI? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Maybe that’s an accurate judgment; maybe it submits to an intentional fallacy. New Music: ‘Bankrupt,’ by Phoenix, and ‘The Beat,’ by Boney James 2013-04-22T22:07:35Z Many of us pay to believe that myth so as to continue our dependency on the fallacy that economic growth is reliant upon population growth. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z State Department funded a conference at the Madison Hotel on the fallacy of “moral equivalence,” a philosophical cousin of whataboutism. Whataboutism: The Cold War tactic, thawed by Putin, is brandished by Donald Trump 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The common fallacy is that pieces as highly and intricately structured as these require technical understanding. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Indeed, in her report last week, Spencer lent credence on national TV to two toxic fallacies: that ballet is unmanly and that any boy who likes it deserves to be shamed. Perspective | Lara Spencer apologizes for ridiculing Prince George and ballet, but the damage has been done 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z First of all, I didn’t want to fall into the fallacy of imagining that this is all brand-new and nothing like this has ever happened before. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z There's a logical fallacy in this club's claims that it welcomes women members, which is rather like the rhetoric of the well-schooled military officer. Of course they want women in the army. Being male is not a prerequisite for hard SF 2012-08-07T11:18:42Z As it is, “I Am the Wind” suffers from the mimetic fallacy writ large; it’s less a commentary on the emptiness we collectively inhabit than an illustration of it. Theater Review: Daring to Overcome the Difficulties of 'Problem Plays' 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z How careless of her to prop up this ugly and damaging fallacy. Motherlode: Choosing Motherhood Over Sex? 2011-07-12T15:15:13Z Stephen is, after his fashion, pushing back against the biographical fallacy. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z An Oxford University scholar refocuses four centuries of American history on the Native perspective, including the fallacy of referring to the continent as the “New World”: New to whom? 15 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Take This Waltz's real subject is the fallacy of trying to grapple with disappointment. Sarah Polley: 'We're all kind of ugly in our relationships' 2012-08-09T20:00:02Z The other fallacy, said Walker, is that noise is a simple annoyance. We know you love your leaf blower, but it’s ruining the neighborhood 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z His statement, however, is an example of a false dichotomy fallacy, or the assumption that if something is one thing, it cannot be another. Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z I am aware of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy that just because something happens after something else does not mean that is why it happened. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z These stories and poems push back against the fallacies that migration is always elective; that migrants are always keen to leave their home countries; that migration is one-way, and necessarily leads to a better fate. A New Collection Upends Conventional Wisdom About Migration 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z “These stories and poems push back against the fallacies that migration is always elective; that migrants are always keen to leave their home countries; that migration is one-way, and necessarily leads to a better fate.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Sure, it is a fallacy to immediately dismiss someone’s criticisms of a topic simply because that person doesn’t have a degree on the topic. From the Enlightenment to the Dark Ages: How “new atheism” slid into the alt-right 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z You've been living in a fallacy for the last 30 years. Jamie Oliver: Taking the revolution to president 2010-03-25T21:35:00Z There are some fallacies here, big ones, so let’s dispense with them upfront. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She wanted a baby. He didn’t. Now, she’s pregnant and lonely. 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z And in doing so, we create arguments sometimes that aren’t rigorous and don’t make any sense and are full of straw men or other rhetorical fallacies. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z On first listen, the prostrate, lovelorn language in “Crazy to Love You” brings to mind an epic relationship, but it’s only foregrounding his own fallacy. Leonard Cohen's New, Beautiful Old Ideas 2012-01-31T14:30:28Z Joe Hanson at PBS Digital Studio’s “It’s Okay to be Smart” explains why humans are so susceptible to such logical fallacies — like blowing on a cartridge. From climate skeptics to anti-vaxxers: Science explains why humans are so good at being wrong 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z There’s been a lot of talk, in wake of the Post’s revelations, about New Journalism and its fallacies, but it overlooks this larger point. Gay Talese's book 'The Voyeur's Motel' got the author in hot water. But is it any good? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z “The biggest fallacy in farming is that there’s no money in it,” Mr. Wiswall said. Young Farmers Conference at Stone Barns Center 2013-01-03T22:25:03Z But it also exposed to him the fallacy of The Game’s teachings. Neil Strauss: 'My thinking was: If this woman’s going to be naked with me – I must be OK. It doesn’t last’ 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z I don't believe this article because for most guys sex in marriage is a fallacy. When the Cause of a Sexless Relationship Is — Surprise! — the Man 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z The pathetic fallacy hardly intrudes, so acute are the observations. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z It’s a fallacy to think that classical music can only be purveyed in the way it’s most familiar: the established concert-hall format. Perspective | American orchestras: Revamping the model, or embracing the obvious? 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z And I wanted to break my family’s long-standing silence surrounding Win’s death, because silence only helps to perpetuate the fallacy that outlawing abortion has ever stopped women from attempting it. My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z In the 11th season of Discovery Channel’s flagship show “The Deadliest Catch,” the title’s fallacy still goes largely unnoted. “Deadliest catch”? Not even in the top three 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z You need only remember that The Mountaintop, first seen at Theatre 503, went on to scoop the Olivier award for best new play to see the fallacy of Bell's assertion. London's fringe theatre ? is it dead already? 2010-05-25T12:18:00Z The fallacy of a left and right binary where liberals compose the artistic elite and Trump’s people compose the abandoned “other” of America, is never addressed in the piece. Why Universal shouldn't have cancelled The Hunt 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z This storm, as well as providing political journalists with the most obvious pathetic fallacy and metaphor since Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights, is both practically and historically awkward for Romney. Riven by factionalism, the Republican party looks hell-bent on self-destruction 2012-08-28T19:08:50Z He is a star resting on what look like laurels but are actually fallacies. New Albums by My Bloody Valentine, Josh Groban and Tim McGraw 2013-02-04T23:42:25Z Here is the flaw in my thinking, courtesy of a kindly scholar of argument: “Logically, your position relies on a fallacy of amphiboly that confuses two different uses of the term ‘two.’ On bisexuality: An apology 2013-04-19T00:00:00Z Ms. Shephard seems to proceed from the fallacy that a steady stream of humorless unpleasantness automatically equals powerful drama, and lays on the portent accordingly. Review: ‘Blame’ Conjures ‘Carrie,’ but Without Telekinesis 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z “The logical fallacy is where they say, ‘If you don’t adopt our technology, people will die,’ ” she explained. The Fight for the Right to Drive 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The idea that certain groups have an exclusive right to certain stories is a critical fallacy; Shakespeare was not a woman, not a Moor, not a Jew, not a medieval — or ancient — English king. Letters to the Editor 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The number one comment on that opinion piece about women dealing with sexism is full of fallacies of thinking and distorted thinking patterns. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on the #MeToo Moment and ‘The Post’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Why were they perpetuating the fallacy that writing can be taught? In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z It's a case of the common architectural fallacy that the container should look like the thing contained, which is as logical as building a ship out of bricks. Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth – review 2013-06-01T23:05:24Z “The idea that there is some sacred text that an audience is receiving is a fallacy,” he said in an interview in his office, where a big sign reading “Yes” hangs over the desk. Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z For one, it rests on the fallacy of urgent insecurity. Shoot first, ask questions later: The destructive downside to America’s cult of DIY personal security 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z The sneakiness of this fallacy is that some caring cisgender adults genuinely believe that their own experiences with puberty are relevant and helpful. Perspective | Please stop insisting trans kids are just struggling with puberty 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The emphasis is on getting the landscape to echo, very precisely, the mood; Caron uses the phrase “pathetic fallacy”. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Generations twist and turn, each exposing the others’ fallacies and lies. ‘The Listener,’ by Rachel Basch 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z And in a world where financial empowerment has been a prominent concern of the feminist movement, it can seem impossible to escape the fallacy that wealth is the primary sign of female progress. Lessons of "Generation Wealth": In an age of excess, women lose 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z There were slippery slopes, faulty analogies, straw men galore and the gleeful identifying of said fallacies that is endemic to any message board flame war. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z It demonizes calorically dense and delicious foods, preserving a vicious fallacy: Thin is healthy and healthy is thin.” Is bread back on the table now? 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z A widespread fallacy is that there is a huge range of difference in people’s metabolic rates. I lost 13 stone – now I know the truth about obesity 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Is this overstuffed rendering of an overstimulated culture what they call the fallacy of imitative form? Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z In hundreds of images, the fallacy of a far-right brand of “patriotism” was laid bare. A theater of propaganda: The Capitol, cameras and selfies 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Infected with the delirium of positive thinking, she can’t free herself from the misimpression that she’s to blame for her own precipitous descent — a fallacy reinforced by America’s mythology of self-reliance. Novel will make you think twice about those beautiful fruits at the store 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The Puberty Sucks fallacy is used as a way to negate the experiences of trans youths, to assume that other people know who they are better than they know themselves. Perspective | Please stop insisting trans kids are just struggling with puberty 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Based on Voltaire's account of the Queen of Babylon in 800BC, Semiramide is as dark as Rossini gets, its superficial cheerfulness as sinister a fallacy as a bling chandelier still lit above a bombed-out ballroom. Semiramide ? review 2011-08-29T17:30:00Z The fallacy lies in the fact that Modernization, and especially the Enlightenment, made us think of values such as laïcité as universal. Europe is not a secular paradise — and Americans should be careful when embracing this myth 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z But this summer, audiences drew a line under what they’ll buy into on simple merit of nostalgia or the sunk-time fallacy, and now the chickens of failure have come home to roost. Box office massacre: how Hollywood flopped this summer 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z It is a fallacy, he says, to believe that young soldiers enter such situations reluctantly. | 'The Tillman Story': Pat Tillman, Hero and Victim, by Amir Bar-Lev 2010-08-19T21:53:00Z Ives’s hyperbolic satire—her outsized, loquacious characters, her stylistic brio—lays bare the central fallacy of “write what you know.” What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z In the same article, Maher commits a classic bandwagon fallacy by claiming it’s a “conversation worth having” because so many people believe vaccinations are harmful. Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z It displays what scholars of the history of technology would call the fallacy of technological determinism. Turn off your iPod and just look at this history of recorded sound 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z I first encountered a version of the Puberty Sucks fallacy nearly a decade ago, when interviewing a nonbinary teen and their mom. Perspective | Please stop insisting trans kids are just struggling with puberty 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z One fallacy about criticism is that it can be practiced objectively, as if we could see and write about movies from some sort of out-of-body experience. Louis C.K. and Hollywood’s Canon of Creeps 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The sooner we all agree that is a fallacy, I think the more interesting all of our work will be. Betty Gilpin Is Proud of ‘The Hunt,’ the Year’s Most Controversial Movie 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z The movie is slightly prone to such fallacies, starting with the title. Review: A Break from Electronic in ‘Above & Beyond Acoustic: Giving Up the Day Job’ 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z “Your mom absolutely needs to know, do NOT fall for the age-old ‘I need to hide this to protect her’ fallacy. Woman asks Reddit for advice after finding alleged evidence of dad's 20-year affair with aunt 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z This only highlights the fallacy of conflating what one woman would choose for herself and what she would mandate for others. Perspective | Amy Coney Barrett is a strong woman. That doesn’t make her a feminist icon. 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z So the authorial fallacy isn't quite so fallacious in this case. 'Alice & Oliver' is like 'Love Story,' but with more grit and less sap 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z These faux-Socratic dialogues are premised on the fallacy that all opinions about art are equally valid and that learning from authority is somehow oppressive. How to view art: Be dead serious about it, but don’t expect too much But both Grant and Pate warn that the idea of “spot training” to isolate and train just one part of the body is a fallacy. Butt seriously: how bottoms became a fitness obsession 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z I placed a few car-crash pictures on tables to highlight the fallacy of invincibility. Motherlode Blog: Trying—and Failing—to Host an Alcohol-Free Teen Party 2013-06-09T12:01:20Z The inherent fallacy in “how you remember it” becomes the slippery tenet of the album, which forced the band members to scrutinize how and what they truly remember about the era. Saint Etienne looks to the past but limits the nostalgia 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z You laid out the fallacies and people didn’t care. Suspicious Minds 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z The play’s Oakland residents argue about colorism, assimilation and the fallacies of trusting the system, embodying the tensions that propelled Newton’s broader ideologies about Blackness. For Her New Play, Tori Sampson Revisited Her ‘Black Power Household’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z And I think there’s a fallacy in the dream, in that success doesn’t necessarily lead to happiness. Naomie Harris: ‘I portray strong women because that’s what I know’ 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z And in a field that venerates authority and embraces the widespread fallacy that great artists live outside the mores of society, these conditions can create fertile ground for harassment. Assaults in dressing rooms. Groping during lessons. Classical musicians reveal a profession rife with harassment. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Only those still trapped in the humanist fallacy that man is the crown of creation, with dominion over all, will see the situation otherwise. From Innovation to Provocation, China’s Artists on a Global Path 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The literary critic Yvor Winters might have derided the project as relying on “the fallacy of imitative form,” but you’d be hard-pressed to achieve the same disorienting effect in another way. The Film That Yields Nothing on a Second Viewing—or a First 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Ultimately, today’s vocal call to arms rests on historic fallacies of reverse victimization, where those excluded from the full benefits of citizenship became the criminalized strangers against whom the Armed Citizen takes defensive action. Shoot first, ask questions later: The destructive downside to America’s cult of DIY personal security 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z There is the good immigrant/bad immigrant fallacy. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z But it decidedly isn’t a fallacy to criticize someone for being incredibly ignorant — and even ignorant of their own ignorance — regarding an issue they’re making strong, confident-sounding claims about. From the Enlightenment to the Dark Ages: How “new atheism” slid into the alt-right 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z The fallacy of such thinking is to regard that essential truth as something revealed rather than created. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Dorsey took documenting his habits to its illogical extreme, exposing the fallacies of life viewed retrospectively through the lens of the usage of time. The Seductiveness of Insta-Nostalgia 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z But you would be falling for a fallacy that applies to most things involving the intersection of public tastes, and quality. Gene Weingarten: Mythunderstood It also indulges in the common biographical fallacy of grounding adult creativity in childhood misery. Movie Review: ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ With Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson 2013-12-12T15:00:18Z One of the fallacies of restaurant criticism is that the whole menu matters. At Anton’s, Appetites Shaped by an Older New York 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z At times, she is bullying and sarcastic, haranguing the class about the fallacies of identity and failing or refusing to read the sensitivities in the room. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Thank you, to the writers and actors who brought to life what is arguably the biggest social justice fallacy of our nation's history. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z “This is probably built on a bit of a fallacy isn’t it?” he said. British Men and American Women Meet Over Soccer 2010-06-16T20:07:00Z “Confused” is a watchword of the Puberty Sucks fallacy — the idea that kids today just don’t know what they want, or need, to feel more comfortable in their skin. Perspective | Please stop insisting trans kids are just struggling with puberty 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brain power. REVIEW: I Love Lucy — and Luc, and Scarlett 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Bowen’s characters deceive and betray themselves; only by returning to her novels can Gornick begin to understand how a similar fallacy ruled her life as well. Vivian Gornick Can’t Stop Rereading 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z But Jay Beeber, executive director for policy at the National Motorists Association, an advocacy organization for drivers, called it a “fallacy” to assume such blanket bans would make streets safer. Right turn on red? With pedestrian deaths rising, US cities are considering bans 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Kuwait's prime minister has described the Iraqi court ruling on the waterway as containing "historical fallacies", calling on Iraq to take "concrete, decisive and urgent measures" to address it. Iraq wants to overcome dispute with Kuwait over maritime waterway, PM says 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Mrs May said it was a "fallacy" to describe her plan as a "hard" Brexit, because she was trying to keep trading advantages the UK enjoyed in the EU. Theresa May: My Brexit deal would have been better for UK 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z “The argument that voting systems are easily hacked is a fallacy,” Pellerin said. California lawmakers vote to limit when local election officials can count ballots by hand 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z How and why do you think that statement is somewhat flawed or a logical fallacy? Astrophysicist Avi Loeb discusses UFOs, alien life and his controversial interstellar research 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z But experts — including the authors of the study cited — say this is a fallacy. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z He is wrong, however, to pin this on WSU President Kirk Schulz and call for his removal because to build his case, Lemke relies on four fallacies: Don't fire WSU president for Pac-12 debacle | Op-Ed 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The idea that lottery winners can just spend lots of money daily forever is a fallacy that has seen more than one lottery winner blow through their winnings, he noted. Big-ticket dreams spurred by $1 billion Powerball jackpot, but expert warns: Take is slow 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Modern people have the "must be brilliant to be that rich" fallacy. Tax billionaires for their own good 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Devin O’Malley, a spokesman for the campaign, said it was the first time a voter openly queried Mr. Pence about “sending back” 2020 electoral votes to state legislatures, a common fallacy on the right. In Iowa, Pence Is Put on the Spot Over Jan. 6 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Yet it's politically expedient these days to knock people when they're down and engage in logical fallacies in order to con large portions of the public into believing outrageous fictions. Drugs in the White House? Horrors! Guess what: It wouldn't be the first time 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z The idea that Asian Americans need higher SAT scores than others to get into Harvard is a fallacy based on a misreading of a study that didn’t look at other admissions factors. The end of affirmative action won't change much for them, some Asian Americans say 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Doesn’t the tradition, experience, reason, and revelation of the Church serve as the antidote to the fallacy of mutual exclusivity you seem to embrace? Ask Dr. E: Fighting racism through the lens of Christianity, and the perils of trusting one’s ‘gut’ 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z “This is but one of myriad cases which highlight the frailties and the fallacies of the death penalty,” said Ms. Conover, who added that she opposes capital punishment. Arizona Man Is Freed After 28 Years on Death Row 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z "The jury will see the fallacy of these unfairly levied allegations when the evidence is presented," Mr Schamel said in a statement. Decorated police officer charged with tipping off Proud Boys leader 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z This practice became the namesake of one of the best-known types of fallacies, the red herring fallacy. How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z How many individuals will needlessly suffer the grave consequences of obesity when there are effective treatment options before insurance companies and our medical system understand that this is a fallacy? Opinion | Obesity is a disease, and it should be treated medically 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The illusion that when we reach a goal we will finally attain happiness is called the arrival fallacy. Advice | Ask Sahaj: I caught my boyfriend cheating. Should I stay with him? 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Frankly, this fallacy takes the cake, while its perpetrator tries to eat it too. Is Oklahoma House Bill 2186 really populist puffery? 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z The deployment of this antiquated statute exposes the fallacy of the Supreme Court’s insistence that its ruling in Dobbs v. Opinion | Will a 150-year-old law put the abortion pill in peril? 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Turner described that argument as a “fallacy.” House intel panel chair after 3rd downed object: ‘Trigger happy’ is better than being ‘permissive’ 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z “Setting aside the constitutional and legal fallacies inherent in the White House’s argument, nothing in federal law prevented the White House from voluntarily complying with our requests,” he wrote. Jordan ramps up oversight requests for top Biden officials 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z But the idea of a time surplus is a fallacy. A Happier New Year 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The website of a group called Save Piatt County!, which opposes the project, is rife with fallacies about renewable energy and inaccuracies about climate science. A Town-by-Town Battle to Sell Americans on Renewable Energy 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Ad hominem attacks top the list of accepted methods of political discourse, and logical fallacies are so common even a college freshman can dissect today's social commentary before the day's first infusion of caffeine. It was the year of "eh, not bad" — and also of avoiding the obvious 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Critics in the medical community call this notion “a dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence.” Column: By embracing anti-Fauci and QAnon conspiracies, Musk tests how low Twitter can sink 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Selling the slippery-slope fallacy that sensible gun regulations will take away rightful owners’ guns is a scare tactic used by those who would see us return to the Wild West. Opinion | Weapons of war should not be available to the public 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Across the country, victories went to candidates who believe in QAnon and candidates who believe the separation of church and state is a fallacy. No longer fringe, small-town voters fear democracy’s demise 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z “I hear a lot of ‘It’s not working because it didn’t stop this mass shooting’ criticism of this law and others, and I think that’s a logical fallacy,” Ms. Anderman said. Could the Colorado Shooting Have Been Prevented? 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z “It is a logical fallacy to suggest that start-ups fail, Theranos was a start-up, and therefore, Theranos failed because it was a start-up,” he said. Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Fraud 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Increasingly, they ask us to consider not simply the past but our relationship to grief, community and endurance, our own mortality and even the fallacy of imagining that monuments themselves are always permanent. Imagining a Memorial to an Unimaginable Number of Covid Deaths 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z But if there is cause for Democrats to conduct a political autopsy, the Fox News fallacy and the bottomless well of denial each deserve their own chapters. Opinion | Democrats are drowning in denial 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z It is an elementary fallacy, however, to say that since inflation expectations appear contained, the Fed can relax. Opinion | Curbing inflation comes first, but we can’t stop there 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Zuckerberg’s predicament illustrates the fallacy of this sort of thinking. Opinion | Meta’s stock plunge shows the right — and wrong — way to tax wealth 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Although industry groups insist that plastic recycling can be improved with better collection infrastructure, Greenpeace says this is a fallacy. Most of your plastics aren't recyclable 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “There is this fallacy that people crossing the street is what creates pedestrian accidents,” Mr. Ting said. Soon, Jaywalking Will No Longer Be a Crime in California 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The fallacy is to believe that every person in every community that has been oppressed by white supremacy will reject it. A revealing racist rant in L.A. 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z “Lack of drama. More attitude of the work first. Less hierarchy. I just haven’t seen any job a woman can’t do. That was all a fallacy.” ‘Woman King,’ Viola Davis and the culmination of a struggle 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “Frankly, it’s a logical fallacy to say that something is bad because it’s associated with this group that I don’t agree with over this other thing,” he said of criticism of Hillsdale. Conservative college’s curriculum gets foothold in S. Dakota 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z If I were still teaching rhetoric, I might use that argument as a lesson for my students, replete as it is in logical fallacies. The Safe Space That Became a Viral Nightmare 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The fallacies kept cropping up and, worst of all, that pesky photo. ‘World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z "The actual illusion that thousands of people who move into Deptford use local shops is a fallacy," he says. Deptford: The London high street voted one of the world's coolest 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z "This is one of the biggest fallacies ever told really," he said. A-levels: 'I failed business and now own a £10m company ' 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Cognitive biases are closely related to informal fallacies. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In addition to checking work for fallacies, consider propaganda, information worded so that it endorses a particular viewpoint, often of a political nature. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Instead, after some early positive advertisements that discussed those matters, Cheney focused her final weeks almost singularly on prosecuting the case against Trump and those local Republicans who tout his fallacies about the 2020 election. Analysis | Liz Cheney went against the ‘clear’ path. Now she leads an anti-Trump movement. 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z He is engaging in the classic diplomatic fallacy of “mirror-imaging,” believing his adversaries see the world the same way he does, sealed off into separate compartments. Opinion | Iran is stuck in Biden’s blind spot 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z The problem is that while it sounds logical, this appealing assertion is a fallacy not supported by research. Why facts don't change minds 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Both fallacies and biases provide examples of the ways we make errors in reasoning. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z When doing a rhetorical analysis, notice these fallacies writers may use to unethically persuade their audiences. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But I think you’re confusing your own anecdotal evidence with statistical evidence, which is an informed logical fallacy. An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid to prove a point 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z And now Democrats in Congress are embracing the same fallacy as they ram through a package of climate, tax and health-care initiatives fancifully marketed as the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.” Perspective | Why the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ is no such thing 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z The day after the attorney general’s attempted debunking of the dead-voter fallacy, Brnovich lost Arizona’s Republican Senate primary to an election denier, Blake Masters. Opinion | In the GOP, the paranoid fringe is becoming the establishment 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Bandwagon fallacy the fallacy that we ought to do something or believe something because many other people do or believe the same thing. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Identify and analyze logical fallacies used in persuasion. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z He loved that it could help dispel a pernicious fallacy that trans and queer people have “miserable lives.” Billy Porter and Eva Reign take on the high school rom-com 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z “Some of the stereotypes that form the basis of our scapegoating have an inherent fallacy about the group,” he said. How unconscious feelings about ourselves drive scapegoating 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z A common layperson fallacy is to assume that you need a larger sample size for a larger overall population. Analysis | Democrats plan sweeping net neutrality bill as FCC majority stalls 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z If the reasons are not adequate support for the conclusion, then the reasoner commits an informal fallacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Does your peer note any logical fallacies, explain why the author uses them, and analyze their effects on the text? Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z "It's nonsense. So, Abe wanted to get out from this fallacy," he adds. What did Shinzo Abe mean to Japan? 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z His core belief in textualism is underscored by a concept Mitchell coined himself called the “writ of erasure fallacy.” After Roe, architect of Texas abortion law sets sights on gay marriage and more 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z In one of the script’s clever touches, Daniel and Chris recurrently recite inventories: Of logical fallacies. Review | In Mosaic premiere, Benjamin Benne’s ‘In His Hands’ muses on sex, faith 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z In fact, each reason commits a different fallacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Causal fallacy: claiming or implying that an event that follows another event is the result of it. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z A lead at Amazon’s robotics division explicitly told Forbes that “replacing people with machines is just a fallacy” that could lead to a company going out of business. Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z "It's really a fallacy that somehow wolves are driving the number on the landscape," he said. A fight over wolves pits facts against feelings in Wisconsin 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z But this perception is an example of a phenomenon known as the base rate fallacy. How to Compare COVID Deaths for Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z When someone commits a tu quoque ad hominem fallacy, they attempt to undermine a person’s argument by pointing to real or perceived hypocrisy on the part of the person. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Ad hominem: logical fallacy that attempts to discredit a person, not an argument. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But it’s a fallacy to believe this will solve the gun violence epidemic. Opinion | Sorry, but mental health professionals are not clairvoyant 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z “In the international game, form can be fallacy.” Berhalter sidesteps Steffen, Turner, Horvath loan question 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z We can see the fallacy of this approach by considering an example from the field of artificial intelligence. How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z A hasty generalization is a fallacy of weak induction in which a person draws a conclusion using too little evidence to support the conclusion. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In this paragraph, you might point out rhetorical fallacies, such as bandwagon, ad hominem, or any others you notice, if you have not yet done so. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Another fallacy is that mental illness is responsible for the frequency of these massacres. Opinion | What separates the United States? More guns. 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z “Because he had a gun. So the mere notion that by everyone having guns is going to make people safer, I think that’s just a fallacy.” Amid anger and grief, some Black residents of Buffalo are talking about guns 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Let’s start with the fallacy that, as Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. argued in the leaked draft, overruling Roe would “return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” Opinion | Two pernicious myths about Alito’s draft opinion 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Appeal to ignorance is another type of fallacy of weak induction. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Bait and switch: logical fallacy that introduces a point about one thing that is likely to be accepted and then changes the terms once initial agreement occurs. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “It was a farce and a fallacy and we called it out for what it is,” Ms. Driskell said outside the chamber after the vote. Florida legislature approves new congressional map giving GOP significant edge 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Be mindful of what psychologists call “planning fallacy,” or the tendency to think things will take less time than they actually will. How to Ask for an Extension 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Among physicists, there seems to be universal agreement on one thing: The stakes on turning DUNE’s sunk-cost fallacy into an opportunity are high. Troubled U.S. Neutrino Project Faces Uncertain Future–and Fresh Opportunities 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z A fallacy is an error in logical reasoning. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Bandwagon: logical fallacy often used in advertising and propaganda. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But your husband is committing the same fallacy. Judge John Hodgman on the Scent of a Ferret 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Q: And that’s why the idea that harsh economic sanctions will make ordinary Russians call for an end to the war may be a fallacy. Americans may be greatly underestimating the impact of 10 years of Putin’s propaganda 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z In Minnesota, with Republicans trying to roll back “clean cars” standards, GOP state Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen, who chairs a committee on environmental spending, laughed when reminded of his 2011 comments calling climate change “a fallacy.” Kansas impasse shows green energy opposition has lost steam 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z There are many types of logical fallacies because there are many ways people can make mistakes with their reasoning. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Causal fallacy: the faulty logic of claiming or believing that an event that follows another event is the result of it. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z White victimology politics are rooted in the fallacy of civilization as a zero-sum game. White men as victims: America's most dangerous fantasy 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z So it's it's really a fallacy when they say "more efficient." Privatize this! How we lost control of America's public goods — and how we can get it back 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z The systems share the general sunk cost fallacy. NFTs aren't art — they're just the Cult of Crypto's latest scam 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z There are frequent examples of the naturalistic fallacy in popular discourse. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Two common fallacies are hasty generalizations and circular arguments. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z "If they go along and proceed as Catholics and have other sacraments in the future, it is all based on the fallacy that they were, in fact, transformed." One-word gaffe invalidates thousands of US baptisms 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z He said relying on historical water data to estimate future flows is the “Waiting for Godot fallacy.” Climate crisis and systemic inequities drive push to reform California water laws 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z His judicial opinions reflect a common fallacy among conservatives that it’s White folks who experience the most discrimination. Opinion | I once told a Supreme Court justice that affirmative action got me into Harvard and Yale. Today they wouldn’t listen. 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Intentional fallacy the faulty argument that the intention of the artist determines the meaning of the work of art. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z See Glance at Genre: Rhetorical Strategies for more on logical fallacies. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z They may even bet that after a long string of heads, the coin is due for tails, as if it had a memory and a wish to appear fair - the infamous gambler's fallacy. Three ways to be more rational this year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The same realism should lead us to reject the romantic fallacy that the American story is largely a consensual project. Opinion | Our obligations to history in 2022 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z "The fallacy of sunk costs, time pressure, good cop/bad cop... It's a classic scam," says Jessica Barker, author of Confident Cyber Security. BBC Bitcoin mining report used in crypto-scam 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z When the form of an argument is problematic, it is called a formal fallacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Last year, Cook released a free game for phones and computers called “Cranky Uncle,” which allows users to play a humorous game where they must spot logical fallacies in scientific statements. New artificial-intelligence tool detects most common climate falsehoods 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Douthat’s claim was in service of another fallacy: “A striking thing about the American abortion debate is how little abortion itself is actually debated,” he declared, as if the past 50 years never happened. Opinion | What the conservative arguments against abortion get all wrong 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The stigma derives from the fallacy that people with HIV are always at risk of passing it on to their partner or child, she says. HIV: The misinformation still circulating in 2021 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Gal has sometimes taken a strong stand — he described loss aversion as a "essentially a fallacy" in a 2018 essay for Scientific American — but not everyone is convinced. Among social scientists, a vigorous debate over loss aversion 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z There are many specific types of informal fallacies, but most can be sorted into four general categories according to how the reasoning fails. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z "There was the fallacy of thinking that you had a choice between two suppliers, but the truth is that they both had the chips made in the same foundry," he said. Carmakers get inventive as global chip crisis bites 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z In modern West Africa, home to 17 countries, locals often see borders as a hindrance — or even a fallacy — more useful to the Europeans who created them than the Africans who have to navigate them. Africa’s rising cities It is a fallacy to separate Israel from settlements, for that is how Israel was established. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: For peat’s sake, it’s time for a geography lesson 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Correcting these fallacies would seem a rather unexceptional, entry-level commitment for public service. Opinion | Trump supporters’ logic of political violence should alarm us all 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The reason why fallacies of relevance stick around is because the evidence seems relevant—meaning it feels relevant. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z To be clear, I’m not defending the actions of Israel; I’m criticizing Cypel’s argument, because it’s full of fallacies. An infuriating indictment of Israel 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Jon Goldstein of green group Environmental Defense Fund says the state’s production increases since 2014 “show the fallacy in the oil and gas industry myth about strong, comprehensive methane rules putting industry out of business.” Rocky Mountain high: U.S. looks to Colorado for methane emissions policy 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z He added that those fallacies include the notion that socialism is compatible with Christianity, increasingly popular on the Christian left. ‘Tuttle Twins’ kids’ show offers an alternative to ‘woke’ Hollywood programming 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z On the other hand, it was us who set the benchmarks of irrationality against which we can tease each other about committing fallacies. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Indeed, the very first fallacy of relevance is called “appeal to emotion.” Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z "It's a complete fallacy that directors have to maximize profits. They can focus on the interests of labor, the environment, and a range of concerns." Marco Rubio wants to go after corporations — but there's a catch 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z “However, I do not intend to mince words when it comes to pointing out the fallacies of bureaucratic thinking that is not attuned to reality,” he said. Japan’s Most Popular Candidate for Prime Minister Is Far From a Shoo-In 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The biggest fallacy about our exit from Afghanistan is that there was a "good" way for us to get out. Empire of chickenhawks: Why America's chaotic departure from Afghanistan was actually perfect 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z The famous logical fallacy of straw man argumentation works because it sort of hijacks the mind's immune system and induces it to overreact to a good argument. From QAnon to anti-vaccination, scholar Andy Norman says we face a scourge of "mind parasites" 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z It is so named because when someone commits this fallacy, the reasons they give for their conclusion concern the characteristics of the person they are arguing against rather than that person’s position. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z And this whole undertaking was caused by another Trump-fueled fallacy: that the Jan. 6 accused are “political prisoners.” Opinion | Republicans’ new civic religion: Election denial 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The father of Ms. Horry’s middle child, having succumbed to the fallacies sown by the internet, didn’t want their daughter vaccinated and got angry. Why Not Offer a Remote Option for School? 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Perhaps the biggest fallacy of all is that NIL rights would turn every star player into a mercenary, thus cornering talent in the already-rich programs and ruining the game’s identity. Perspective | Those NCAA doomsday scenarios about NIL? Instead, it’s proven to be a cleanser. 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z "It's a fallacy to think the mafias are going to disappear if we make squatting laws harsher," she says. The hard men removing squatters in Spain 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The fallacy of hasty generalization highlights the empirical nature of induction—we need a basic understanding of the world to know exactly how much evidence is needed to support many of our claims. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Yet this flimsy fallacy has consumed the Republican electorate. Opinion | Republicans’ new civic religion: Election denial 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z “The idea that Portland, or any city, can single-handedly defeat white nationalism is a fallacy,” said Eric Ward, executive director of the Western States Center, a pro-democracy group. Portland erupts in protest again with clashes between far-right, far-left groups 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Every conflict that they invest in defending their position strengthens their commitment to a sunk cost fallacy way of living in the world. There's a psychological reason anti-vaccine misinformation is so hard to fight 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Whatever the case, Ms. Cheney said the events show the fallacy of the “We’re going to end endless wars” campaign slogan. Cheney: Biden, Trump both responsible for “catastrophe” in Afghanistan 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z The fallacy of false cause occurs when a causal relation is assumed to exist between two events or things when it is unlikely that such a causal relationship exists. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In other words, there is no reason to keep promoting the fallacy that the wealthiest 1 percent got 83 percent of the tax cut. Analysis | The zombie claim that the 2017 tax cut gave ‘83 percent’ to the top 1 percent 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z I spend a lot of time in the book addressing the fallacy of "bad apples" and "the hater" — the isolated villain. Could genocide really happen here? Leading scholar says America is on "high alert" 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z She pointed specifically to arguments about the 23rd Amendment, suggesting they amounted to a logical fallacy. At Senate committee, D.C. statehood is debated anew 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z She claimed both the U.S. territory in the Caribbean and the nation's capital city deserve statehood and that the supposed purity and innocence represented by the flag's white stripes is a fallacy. Singer Macy Gray argues US needs a 'new flag' to replace 'tattered, dated, divisive' Old Glory 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Open-question argument G. E. Moore’s argument against the naturalistic fallacy, which he sees as trying to derive non-natural properties from natural properties. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z To many parents, however, the idea of systemic racism — that America’s laws and institutions from education to healthcare are biased against minorities — is an over-simplistic fallacy. ‘Revolutionizing a culture’: How critical race theory grew from law school thesis to K-12 trend 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z “The idea that the university was untainted by slavery is a fallacy, and it obscures the complicated, nuanced history of slavery in the United States.” Johns Hopkins enslaved people. Or did he? Some scholars question the university’s recent claims. 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z “We could’ve made it super comedic and fun, with everyone trying to find their true selves in this fallacy of a reality series slash PR campaign for this star.” With ‘In the Heights,’ Jon M. Chu disrupts the movie musical 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z That’s a fallacy that tribal nations spend a lot of time trying to dispel. The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z A related bias is called the bandwagon fallacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “Doctors are saying in six months or in 12 months they will be better. The fallacy that kids don’t get this is so frustrating.” Families live in fear as long-haul COVID-19 afflicts more children 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Roiled by internet fallacies, many hunger for straightforward information from people they trust. Faith, freedom, fear all factor into rural America’s COVID vaccine skepticism 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z This isn't just a logical fallacy, but it's a half-baked one that falls apart under even the slightest scrutiny. Whataboutism, the last refugee for Republicans, is on the rise 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z The final fallacy being peddled by defenders of the status quo is that a change in admissions is “anti-Asian.” Opinion | Talented Black and Latinx students like us are now being shut out of Thomas Jefferson High School 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The bandwagon fallacy can lead you to conclude that you ought to do something or believe something because many other people do or believe the same thing. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z However, that argument rests on a logical fallacy. The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z The results “illustrate the fallacy of the concept of ‘pristine’ nature untouched by human hands,” says Ruth DeFries, a sustainability scientist at Columbia University who was not involved with the study. Just 19% of Earth’s land is still ‘wild,’ analysis suggests 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z But they do so by misleading, just as logical fallacies mislead us by mimicking valid heuristics. Can a "true" conservatism be redeemed after Trump? Maybe — if it embraces liberalism 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z The same ability that allows the program to link words and images at an abstract level creates this unique weakness, which OpenAI describes as the “fallacy of abstraction.” OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z The sunk cost fallacy is thinking that attaches a value to things in which you have already invested resources that is greater than the value those things have today. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z There’s a reason we believed the fallacy that offense could keep us safe: The offense was a bloody masterpiece. How the United States Lost to Hackers 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Directors Roundtable: Regina King, Spike Lee and more discuss ‘the greatest fallacy of our profession’ The Globes nominating female directors should not be news — but it’s a start 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z In doing so, they exposed the fallacy that the stock market was ever a level playing field. Anyone Can Manipulate the Market. Here’s How to Fix That. 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Fincher: The notion that any one person has control over 90 people who are playing dress-up is the greatest fallacy of our profession. 6 directors on the illusion of control and 'the pitiless exposure of your weaknesses' 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z A similar type of faulty reasoning leads to the gambler’s fallacy, in which a person reasons that future chance events will be more likely if they have not happened recently. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The Nov. 3 election ended over a month ago in reality, but the conspiracy-driven fallacies have pushed the hype on and on, way past any measure of reality. Editorial Roundup: Georgia 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Directors Roundtable: Regina King, Spike Lee and more discuss ‘the greatest fallacy of our profession’ The Globes nominating female directors should not be news — but it’s a start 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z This is a fallacy, because for any particular roll, the odds of, say, getting a double six are the same: 1/36. Our Improbable Existence Is No Evidence for a Multiverse 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z “The notion that any one person has control over 90 people who are playing dress-up is the greatest fallacy of our profession.” 6 directors on the illusion of control and 'the pitiless exposure of your weaknesses' 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Fallacies that cannot be reduced to the structure of an argument are called informal fallacies. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “You have to move all the stereotypes, move all the fallacies. You have to look at what’s happening,” Brown said. Doctors battle Black Miamians’ concern over vaccine 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Nothing requires, however, that lies and fallacies be given a role in policymaking or scientific debate. Column: I never 'agree to disagree' — I just tell you when you're wrong 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z It is of course true that this selection effect exists, but it makes no difference to whether or not the fallacy is committed. Our Improbable Existence Is No Evidence for a Multiverse 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Thus, recent proclamations of a "restoration of democracy" are nothing more than fallacy, contrary to recent mainstream pronouncements. Biden’s victory was hardly a win for "democracy." It was another win for the 1% 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z There are many types of informal fallacies, which can be sorted into four general categories according to how the reasoning fails. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “But when you look at it, it’s just kind of a huge fallacy.” Deion Sanders is inspiring hope at Jackson State. But what happened at Prime Prep? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z By attaching themselves to Trump’s lies and fallacies, these Republicans in denial are captives themselves, prisoners of the president’s madness and nothing like heroes. Opinion | It’s time for the brat in the White House to make his great escape 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Specifically, multiverse theorists commit the inverse gambler’s fallacy, which is a slight twist on the regular gambler’s fallacy. Our Improbable Existence Is No Evidence for a Multiverse 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s a fallacy, after all, to believe a line can be held if it’s crossed. Review: 'Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War': Bored in the USA 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z A fallacy of relevance occurs when the arguer presents evidence that is not relevant for logically establishing their conclusion. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z A third concept — the sunk cost fallacy — is also useful here. Trump's supporters haven't budged, despite everything. WTAF? 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z However, he claims the banks’ argument that Biden would be better for business is a fallacy, arguing that historically, the best outcome for stocks is divided control of Congress followed by Republican control of Congress. First Thing election special: we’re not going to control Covid, says Trump aide 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z In the regular gambler’s fallacy, the gambler has been at the casino all night and has had a terrible run of bad luck. Our Improbable Existence Is No Evidence for a Multiverse 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z The law enforcement officials interviewed by Fox News also say it's a fallacy that shooting someone in the leg could be less lethal, especially if a bullet hits the large femoral artery in the thigh. Police rip Biden's repeated advice to shoot suspects 'in the leg' 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Ad hominin attack fallacy of relevance that argues against someone’s idea or suggestion by attacking the individual personally, rather than pointing out problems with the idea or suggestion. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z My silence or discomfort to correct these fallacies of my patients would be identified as a harm to them. Perspective | As a doctor, I must act when coronavirus politics threaten to harm my patients 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz comments in the Times that the fallacies of Friedman’s ideology are more obvious than ever. Big Tech, Out-of-Control Capitalism and the End of Civilization 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z In the inverse gambler’s fallacy, a visitor walks into a casino and the first thing she sees is someone rolling a double six. Our Improbable Existence Is No Evidence for a Multiverse 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z “At the same time, the suspension of trials clearly showed the fallacy of the approach, when entire countries exclusively rely on novel and untested platforms when choosing a vaccine for widespread use,” Dmitriev’s statement continued. In race for coronavirus vaccine, Russia ramps up rhetoric to defend Sputnik V 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z Biased sample a fallacy of weak induction that draws a conclusion using evidence that is biased in some way. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Trump’s diagnosis laid bare the fallacy of his repeated claims that experts’ public health warnings were overly alarmist and that the pandemic itself was nearly over. Trump and first lady test positive for the coronavirus 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z And Republicans need to stop lying and saying everything is a fallacy and everything is wrong. Josh Brolin defends Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson against ‘vitriol’ after star's Biden-Harris endorsement 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Here's the fallacy of the Republican Party's strategy of converting the courts into a political battleground. The Supreme Court is finished: Republicans have killed it. Now it's time to fight back 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Devos: The fallacy there is the notion that the only kind of school that does serve the community and does serve the broader population is one that is government-run. Betsy DeVos' Big Idea: Funding students, rather than systems for school choice 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Fallacy of diversion a general category of informal fallacies in which an arguer presents evidence that functions to divert the attention of the audience from the current subject of argument. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “It’s just a fallacy. And I’m afraid in many cases, it is an excuse for inaction.” Trump, DeVos raise school choice in appeal to vexed parents 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Somebody in that organization needs to read up on the sunk cost fallacy. NFL 2020 predictions: can anyone stop Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs? 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z This is literally called the "sunk cost fallacy," and it's famously hard for people — including people at supposedly savvy financial institutions — to stop throwing good money after bad. Death Star blows itself up: Trump ran his campaign finances like his businesses — into the ground 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z And so it is absolutely a fallacy to say that anyone who is wealthy would benefit. Betsy DeVos' Big Idea: Funding students, rather than systems for school choice 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z False dichotomy a fallacy of unwarranted assumption in which a limited number of possibilities are assumed to be the only available options. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z By correcting the underlying fallacy that college sports are worthless despite all that money, some plaguing issues would become sharper. Perspective | Colleges should offer a major in sports. It could solve some problems. 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z In debating, the straw man is a logical fallacy in which you attribute to your opponent something he hasn’t argued, then knock down the fake argument. Opinion | Trump huffs and puffs, but his campaign is built of strawmen 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z It doesn't take long for a simple fallacy to snowball its way down a slippery slope into outright authoritarianism. Decoding QAnon: From Pizzagate to Kanye to Marina Abramovic, this conspiracy covers everything 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z A reporter lets his publisher frame him for murder to show the fallacy of circumstantial evidence. Movies on TV this week: 'Stand by Me' on Showtime and more 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Hasty generalization fallacy of weak induction that draws a conclusion using too little evidence to support the conclusion. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Today we live in a world where science denial, about everything from climate change to COVID-19, is rampant, informed by fallacies of all kinds. The False Logic behind Science Denial 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z “I think that demonstrates the fallacy that the schools are unsafe.” Schools reopening for paid childcare but not free teaching face backlash 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z “There’s a fallacy,” she continued, “that says that you move from protest to politics. You do not move from protest to politics. The only thing that ever creates change is protest and politics.” Column: I wasn't a fan of Kamala Harris. It took President Trump to change my mind 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z “And that’s one of the fallacies in California just constantly looking at the average effects, whether it’s statewide or within a county.” California again breaks record for most coronavirus deaths in a single day 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Red herring fallacy of diversion that ignores the opponent’s position and simply changes the subject. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In college, I learned about the myriad logical fallacies that pervade our world. The False Logic behind Science Denial 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z The fallacy lies not within either option but rather within the idea that those options are mutually exclusive. This time in my teacher voice: On two pandemics and the cost of "moderation" 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z But for those who fear more sporting options will send a terrible message about a kind of normalcy that doesn’t exist, the fallacy should be undeniable at first glimpse. Perspective | Sports are doing what they can to remain viable, just like the rest of us 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Otherwise, the circle becomes hypocrisy, a lie, a fallacy.” Activist amplifies voices of Louisville’s Latinx community 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Strawman fallacy of diversion that utilizes a weaker version of the position being argued against in order to make the position easier to defeat. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In contrast, there is a universe of logical fallacies. The False Logic behind Science Denial 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Livio writes that “Galileo pounced on this fallacy like a cat on a slow mouse.” How Galileo Battled the Science Deniers of His Time 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z "You do not spread cancer by doing a mammogram, that's a complete fallacy." 'Thermographic scans gave my son false hope' 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Needless to say, the efforts to demonize Gore — and, by association, climate-change theory — were a veritable dictionary of logical fallacies. Trump is trying to do to Anthony Fauci what the right did to Al Gore — but it's not working 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z What is problematic with appealing to emotion in an argument, and how does this qualify it as a fallacy of relevance? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z All this is to say that logical fallacies are everywhere and not always easily refuted. The False Logic behind Science Denial 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Part of this has to do with the various fallacies deployed by people who decry “cancel culture.” Letterheads: social media and the end of discourse 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z More than any other entity, viruses and microorganisms expose the fallacy of our tyrannical choreography. How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z There is great solace in putting aside the fallacy that you’re entitled to a starring role in this story. Opinion | To White People Who Want to Be ‘One of the Good Ones’ 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z A related bias is called the bandwagon fallacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z I cracked a joke about the No True Scotsman logical fallacy, but more I think about it, the more it applies. Apple’s App Store polices are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement is worse 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z This is incorrect, and it is based on a recurring fallacy about congressional power. Perspective | Sorry, Mr. President, Congress needs your taxes. Legislating includes oversight. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z As a result, a death rate for the coronavirus based on a percentage of those who tested positive amounts to a “fallacy,” Pandori said. Nevada state lab planning May start for virus antibody tests 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z I hope the artistic analogy proves to be a fallacy. Opinion | The shape of the recovery 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The bandwagon fallacy can lead you to conclude that you ought to do something or believe something because many other people do or believe the same thing. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z He said it was a fallacy to argue gun rights had been infringed upon since the governor has allowed gun shops and outdoor ranges to remain open. Virginia, Maryland governors unveil early plans for bringing states out of economic shutdown; region reports 102 more fatalities 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z That thread ended by saying, “Dr. Fauci and Dr. Adams, check your privilege. Think critically. Stop spreading harmful fallacies that support white supremacy.” Lead NIH coronavirus researcher suggested pandemic could be 'genocide', said doctors would let blacks die 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The latest fallacy: that taking two cups of black tea before midnight protects against the virus. Waiving Rent and Making Masks, Afghans Meet Coronavirus With Kindness 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z We are inclined, for example, to more readily accept information that accords with our existing beliefs and reject or resist facts that do not, a fallacy known as confirmation bias. Even in the Age of Trump, facts matter 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z The sunk cost fallacy is thinking that attaches a value to things in which you have already invested resources that is greater than the value those things have today. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z When Donald Trump launched his campaign for the 2016 presidential election, his signature policy agenda around immigration often leaned into the “anchor baby” fallacy. 'Anchor babies': the 'ludicrous' immigration myth that treats people as pawns 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Progressives had argued this would be a fallacy, that the America of 2016 contained the seeds of its own destruction and that ultimately, Trump is a symptom of dysfunction rather than a cause. Stage set for Biden v Trump as Democrats seek return to Obama era 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Acting as if theories — especially those about humans — exist in cultural or political vacuums is a ridiculous fallacy. Want to do better science? Admit you’re not objective 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Exposing the hard work of writing disintegrates the fallacy of instant genius. Review: In Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers,’ art conquers all 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z A similar type of faulty reasoning leads to the gambler’s fallacy, in which a person reasons that future chance events will be more likely if they have not happened recently. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z But there are many fallacies underlying this debate. Humanity’s survival on Earth starts with having smaller families 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Below the surface, however, the fallacies and distortions inherent in the Trump approach continue to put down roots in U.S. policy. Opinion | Trump’s trade policy is injurious and insults the truth 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z But to say "a single candidate's follower was mean, therefore I don't support this candidate's policies regardless of their actual political implications," is a rhetorical fallacy. The “BernieBro” myth persists because pundits don't understand how the internet works 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z The fallacy here is that there is no physical reason that the two parcels must reach the trailing edge simultaneously. No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z So the fallacy gets its name because it means to trick people into following a different path of reasoning than the one at hand. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z They deemed her as both their excellent representative sent to a realm they always internalized as higher and as someone who could debunk all the fallacies they had internalized. Coco Gauff’s grandmother has her own remarkable story to tell 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z “What the left is doing is a fallacy,” he said. Brazil’s culture secretary fired after appearing to paraphrase Nazi propaganda in speech 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Brandon Hersey, who represents the South End on the Seattle School Board, called the idea that changing Washington’s program would impede access for students of color a “fallacy.” New bill in Washington state Legislature would intervene in Seattle’s plan to change gifted education 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “Are we going to be a body that is complicit to creating law based on political statements, propaganda, mistrust and medical fallacy? Is that the chamber we are?,” she asked. House passes ‘born alive’ abortion bill despite questions 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Why does Moore object to the naturalistic fallacy? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z That’s a fallacy on our parts, for more is needed than physical gifts to be a conqueror. Dustin Johnson says he should have double the amount of wins. Is he right? - Golf Digest 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z For an increasingly literate population, pamphlets were produced with titles like "Vaccination: its fallacies and evils", "Vaccination, a Curse" and the suitably Gothic "Horrors of Vaccination". 'Better a felon's cell than a poisoned babe' 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Don’t fall prey to the fallacy of sunk costs. Genius travel hacks to upgrade your holiday trip | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The idea that white people are being “replaced” by non-whites and non-Christians has long been a fallacy propagated by white supremacists. Prominent anti-abortion chief warned of Muslims 'replacing' Christian Europeans 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z False cause fallacies also occur when a person believes that just because one event occurs after another, the first event is the cause of the second one. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “I realised that the tools of gamification that Sander was exploring were very applicable to the logical fallacy framework that I was working with,” said Cook. Cranky Uncle game takes on climate crisis denial and fake news 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Scientists are supposed to counteract these fallacies by promoting modesty and seeking evidence. Essential Advice for Fledgling Scientists 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z In fact he was in part making a philosophical point about the impossibility of real truth, and the fallacy of other thinkers for claiming to be arbiters of truth, including hallowed folk like Plato. The First Alien 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z To be candid, both parties cling to decaying fallacies about Georgia. Opinion | Stacey Abrams: Republicans’ extreme positions open the door for Democrats in Georgia 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Often the unjustified assumption is only implicit, which can make these types of fallacies difficult to identify. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z This is important and points to a fallacy in many old studies. How a neuroscientist's infant son revolutionized our understanding of autism 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Until recently, it was possible to repress a sneaking awareness of the weather fallacy, stuff it in the back of the closet, alongside the earthquake kit, and tell oneself that all was well in paradise. Waking up from the California Dream 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Hiding behind the fallacy of "we are just a platform." Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Over three decades of brutal Middle East wars provides adequate proof of the fallacy of this myth. Donald Trump and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: "Disordered Minds" who think alike 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z One way to think about this fallacy is that the question is whatever is at issue in a debate or argument. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Correlation is not causation, she said, a fallacy many people fail to understand. Perspective | Is chocolate healthy? Alas, the answer isn’t sweet. Here’s why. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. Republicans' fantasy Constitution: Trump and the "phony emoluments clause" 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Exxon also misled us through arguments that appear convincing but contain logical fallacies. Exxon has misled Americans on climate change for decades. Here’s how to fight back 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z He also has been willing to lean on his running game, proving the suggestion that the Air Raid is a pass-only scheme is a fallacy. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 7: Aaron Rodgers takes flight, and Falcons reach new lows 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The name “begging the question” makes more sense for the second form of the fallacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z One fallacy, as Pils has noted, is that lobbying for human rights reforms in China is a form of insulting “cultural imperialism.” Perspective | China is getting exactly what it wants from LeBron James and the NBA: Capitulation 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z However, this is a fallacy, analogous to referring to “Europeans” or “Asians” as a specific group. The truth about Columbus Day, explained 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z It was the latest reminder that the notion of sport as being fearless on the front lines of social change is more fallacy than reality. Perspective | While Adam Silver tries to straddle a line on China, the NBA misses an opportunity 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z "It is a fallacy to say that the Amazon is the heritage of humankind, and a misconception confirmed by scientists to say that our Amazon forests are the lungs of the world," he said. Rainforest belongs to us, says Brazil's leader 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z A red herring fallacy is like a strawman, except the arguer completely ignores their opponent’s position and simply changes the subject. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z She thinks that anonymous donations are a fallacy, and can be more harmful than helpful—to both families, and the donors who helped them. Consumer DNA Tests Negate Sperm-Bank-Donor Anonymity 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Taiwan’s representative office in the Solomon Islands called the report a “fallacy” and said the taskforce members did not conduct proper fact-finding. China extends influence in Pacific as Solomon Islands break with Taiwan 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z This is akin to the No True Scotsman fallacy in which the definition of a word/phrase is modified from its actual meaning to make a point. Facebook spiked a legitimate fact check about abortion after Republicans complained 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z We must inform you that this is a fallacy. Hello, Hello 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z These categories are fallacies of relevance, fallacies of weak induction, fallacies of unwarranted assumption, and fallacies of diversion. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z This was all built upon a fallacy that it was OK for us to present right-wing news programming because everything else was supposedly left-wing. How Pat Robertson's Christian TV empire created a "shadow government" — and led to Donald Trump 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The fallacy is trying to determine something about your individual risk by looking at aggregated data that do not reflect individual circumstances. Graphics That Seem Clear Can Easily Be Misread 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The anointing of one book as a cultural touchstone, one individual as the oracle, and the fallacy of meritocracy that underpins it, is patently absurd. Darkly funny, desperate and full of rage: what makes a millennial novel? 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Because feckless but sweet peace-and-love quietism seldom makes going on a killing spree look like the obvious next step, equating the Manson “family” with hippies in general is obviously a fallacy. Woodstock glorified them. Tarantino barbecued them. In 2019, whither the hippie? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The fallacies of weak induction occur when the evidence used is relevant but is too weak to support the desired conclusion. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Perhaps different from the last one in cause but accomplishing the same thing: Americans killing Americans for a theory of a way of life that is really a fallacy. Opinion | ‘The Lives Lost:’ A must-read for the NRA 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z To say that his work sounds like movie music is an elementary fallacy, a confusion of cause and effect. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the Opera Composer Who Went Hollywood 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z So, why is America still perpetuating the fallacy of the self-made individual? Robert Reich: The myth of the rugged individual 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z McConnell isn't being accused of sympathy to Moscow because his opponents lack valid grounds for criticism and are resorting to a straw man fallacy. Trumpists are the real McCarthyists 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z The fallacies of unwarranted assumption occur when an argument assumes, as evidence, some reason that requires further justification. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In America, a country whose founding fallacies of white versus black, dominion versus enslavement and superiority versus inferiority reverberate ceaselessly through the fabric of daily life, there is no topic more urgently relevant. Toni Morrison remembered: ‘Her irreverence was godly’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Anderson says disillusionment is not uncommon in a movement built on the fallacy that if you marry young and abstain, you’ll be happy. 'I thought losing my virginity would be rape': inside Christian purity guides 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z “It is a fallacy when folks try to somehow scapegoat immigrants, as if we are here to somehow destroy the fabric of this country,” said council President Nancy Navarro, District 4 Democrat. Executive order bars county agencies from working with ICE, DHS on immigration enforcement 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Boeing used the “fallacy of foreign pilot error” to avoid the grounding of the plane after the first crash, Njoroge told the committee. ‘I miss them,’ father who lost five family members in Boeing 737 MAX crash tells lawmakers 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z The fallacies of diversion occur when the arguer attempts to distract the attention of the audience from the argument at hand. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Prosecution descriptions of an empire that paid for private planes, beachfront villas and a private zoo were a fallacy, his lawyers say. Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ faces sentencing in US case 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Many have already pointed out the fallacies in Trump’s tweets. Trump’s Racist Tweets, and the Question of Who Belongs in America 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Saying that they prophesied the end of slavery, for example, is a classic example of the logical fallacy known as "hindsight bias" or "creeping determinism." Fragile patriotism: Right-wing snowflakes, triggered by any criticism of America 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z The magazine published an issue and later a book titled “Hong Kong Nationalism,” condemned by then-Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who said in a policy address that the book was “putting forward fallacies” and “advocating independence.” In Hong Kong, one protester pulls off his mask and defines a movement 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Begging the question a fallacy of unwarranted assumption that either assumes the truth of a conclusion in the course of trying to prove it or assumes the truth of a contentious claim. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Shor: The biggest popular fallacy about quantum computers is probably that they are just like classical computers, only faster. Quantum Computing for English Majors 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z She called the new system enacted on Thursday “a fallacy.” Catholic bishops adopt long-promised abuse plan — for bishops to police bishops 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Berke and other critics say the GOP leaders’ economic argument is a fallacy. GOP leaders: Economy helped remove kids from TennCare rolls 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z In fact, it may be true that the argument we are getting dumber as a result of too much screen time is a fallacy. Editorials from around New England 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Fallacy of relevance a general category of informal fallacies in which an arguer relies on reasons that are not relevant for establishing a conclusion. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z What is the biggest popular fallacy about quantum computing? Quantum Computing for English Majors 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z What they’re referring to is the fallacy of category, the idea that we can be explained on terms other than our own. Kathryn Scanlan remixes a found diary and T Fleischmann deconstructs a memoir 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z That was a striking change in tone from a letter López Obrador sent to Trump on Thursday, in which he said Trump’s “America first” policy was “a fallacy.” Mexican foreign minister says tariffs would have dire consequences, wouldn’t affect immigration policy 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z In a letter to Trump, Lopez Obrador said he was not looking for confrontation but also jabbed back, calling the U.S. leader’s signature phrase America First “a fallacy.” How Trump's trade tariff tweet put Mexico's back to the wall 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Fallacy of unwarranted assumption a general category of informal fallacies in which an arguer implicitly or explicitly relies on reasons that require further justification. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The host even pointed out a fallacy: “I’ve read the Bible, too. And as much as God loved children, he also wasn’t afraid to take out a bunch of them when he wanted to.” Stephen Colbert on Trump: 'An out-of-control toddler' 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z His strength was thinking on his feet, exposing fallacies; his cross-examinations were widely feared. “Ross Perot and China” 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z “We have two nested fallacies here,” Marks continues. Why race science is on the rise again 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The greatest of historical fallacies is to confuse crowds with power. Venezuela’s dead revolution shows the limitations of the crowd | Simon Jenkins 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Fallacy of weak induction a general category of informal fallacies in which an arguer’s evidence or reasons are too weak to firmly establish their conclusion. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z They insisted that the wage gap is a fallacy, that feminazis are destroying families, that people need guns to protect themselves from government incursions onto private property. How social networks are recruiting teenage extremists 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z This gets us close to the giant fallacy the press and both parties are ignoring — GDP, job growth, and the stock market don’t tell us much about individual welfare. Unless Democrats refute the myth of a "Good Economy," Donald Trump is likely to win a second term 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “There is a fallacy in the initial understanding of ‘Are we going to be a lights-out fulfillment network in the next few years?’” Amazon dismisses idea automation will eliminate all its warehouse... 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Additionally, we know it's a fallacy to argue that more guns means more murder. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z False cause fallacy of weak induction in which a causal relation is assumed to exist between two events or things that are not causally connected; “correlation does not equal causation”. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z With pathetic fallacy worthy of Shakespeare, rain and wind lashed the island of Manhattan as I clutched my voice recorder from the back seat of my taxi heading uptown. My brunch with Glenda Jackson: A critic goes another round with Broadway’s King Lear 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z To Thaler, the Orioles’s refusal to sideline Davis is a classic example of the sunk cost fallacy, an economic principle he detailed in his book “Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics.” How a Hitless Chris Davis Is Like a $15 Dessert 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Good news Tiger Woods fans: It is a fallacy that the Masters is a bit of a haven for bombers. This stat historically predicts success at Augusta National—here's who rates out well this season - Golf Digest 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Few know this fallacy better than the harried factotum hunched over a phone. My dispiriting, infuriating – and illuminating – time as a political telemarketer 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z What is the difference between fallacies of relevance and fallacies of weak induction? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z You forgot all about the greased palms and realized there has been a fallacy at the heart of the FBI investigation into college basketball corruption, that money makes it an irredeemable exercise. Perspective | Auburn rises above dirty business of college basketball with a beautiful game 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z A common fallacy is assuming that AI has human urges and values. Can we stop robots outsmarting humanity? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z But the idea that compassion is automatically reducible to how much you are spending on a government program is a fallacy and false. Salon interview: How to have an argument with Ben Shapiro 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The third is most difficult to address, he says, based on "the naturalistic fallacy", where people reason that natural things are good and unnatural things are bad. UK scientists join race for lab-grown meat 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Explain what a fallacy of unwarranted assumption is, and offer an example of one. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The imitative fallacy was, in Winters’s view, close to being a national literary vice. John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Paul is engaged in a particular type of fallacy. Opinion | Public health shouldn’t be invasive. Vaccination skeptics make that harder. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Concealing the fallacy of junk science — multiple personalities and recovered memories, for example — is corrupt. Opinion | Junk science doesn’t belong in court 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z “That any opponent can oust Trump, no matter how far to the radical left they are, is a fallacy.” Democrats investigate 'White House plan' to share nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia – live 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z As the next section will describe, this mistake is a type of fallacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “Well, your question is full of fallacies,” Mr. Bolton told reporters. Intervening Against Venezuela’s Strongman, Trump Belies ‘America First’ 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z I consider how I shall demonstrate this fallacy to them. Who only stand and wait 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The leftward lens is distorted by what historians call the anachronistic fallacy, projecting today’s perspectives and values onto moments in the past. In our new post-truth era, the way we view reality is more important than ever 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Kaminker is not alone in his efforts to ease these tensions over the holiday and some of the fallacies associated with it. New Year’s Fete From Russia Irks Some in Israel: ‘It’s Not a Jewish Holiday’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z For Moore, if philosophers based the judgment “x is good” on a set of facts, or natural properties, about x, they have committed the naturalistic fallacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The roots of the joke, which is now synonymous with the logical fallacy of whataboutism, actually precede the cold war, Johnson said. Race and Russian interference: Senate reports detail age-old tactic 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z The fallacy is concluding that if an assertion of a claim is blameworthy, it’s no longer binding. Do I Have to Repay a Loan to an Ex-Lover? 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The biggest fallacy in the current situation is that China will pay the cost of tariffs. Trump and China: Deal or no deal? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z One of the great fallacies of American society is that you have to be smart if you have a lot of money. Arrogance and ignorance: Will the Trump family escape criminal charges because they seem too dumb? 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z There’s a set of common fallacies that equate the “natural”, the “healthy” and the “good”. Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z That brings us to his second fallacy: No, trade deficits aren’t caused by unfair foreign trade practices. When MAGA fantasy meets Rust Belt reality 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Nobody wants open borders, it's a fallacy to believe that democrats just want all these migrants here illegally. Migrants in Tijuana Run to U.S. Border, but Fall Back in Face of Tear Gas 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z The fallacy of this argument is, of course, that these “happier” populations are overwhelmingly not the same people as were there before gentrification. Amazon’s move will gentrify neighborhoods — at what social cost? 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z “The fallacy of the right tackle not being important is crazy,” Gilmore said. ‘Blind side’ left tackles inspired a movie. In today’s NFL, the right side has the tougher job. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Borrowing from engineering, here are principles that allow us to overcome the so-called Grove fallacy and harness biology. How to Engineer Biology 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Are scientists with DNA-sequencing machines falling for the same logical fallacy? Life on Earth to have its DNA analysed in the name of conservation 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z “It’s just an incorrect statement. It’s a fallacy.” Chesapeake Bay land deal undergoes scrutiny in race for county executive 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z “The Indian government’s preferential treatment of RuPay coupled with fallacies on pricing must be discontinued,” the company asked the U.S. government to propose. Exclusive: Mastercard lodged U.S. protest over Modi's promotion of... 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Two weeks after the riot, a department spokeswoman described allegations that inmates were subjected to physical abuse as "a fallacy." Lawsuit alleges inmate abuse before and after deadly riot 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z |
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