noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pathetic fallacy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ecological
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The twin problems of ecological and individualist fallacies occur when inferences are drawn about one level of analysis using evidence from another.
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Are there problems with ecological or individualist fallacies ?
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This use of data at two levels of analysis seeks to minimize the problem of ecological fallacy .
naturalistic
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Moore says that those who try to identify good with some complex property are committing what he calls the naturalistic fallacy .
pathetic
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It was all just like a pathetic fallacy .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't believe the fallacy that money brings happiness.
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It's a fallacy that all fat people are fat simply because they eat too much.
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The idea that a good night's sleep will cure everything is a complete fallacy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However, it is important immediately to dispose of one popular fallacy .
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However, the assumption that productivity must be directly related to biomass or chlorophyll is a fallacy .
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It is a fallacy to think that the more information an organisation has the better will be the decisions.
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It was essentially a new attempt to revive the Burkeian fallacy of empire through freedom, obedience through liberty.
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The error is in taking the polynomial to be a structural representation of the system, but the basic underlying fallacy remains.
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This fallacy has snared philosophers from Plato to Leibniz and beyond, and it still snares many major physicists.
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This fallacy says that everything that can happen, will happen, given enough time.