FALLACY


Meaning of FALLACY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

pathetic fallacy

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

ecological

The twin problems of ecological and individualist fallacies occur when inferences are drawn about one level of analysis using evidence from another.

Are there problems with ecological or individualist fallacies ?

This use of data at two levels of analysis seeks to minimize the problem of ecological fallacy .

naturalistic

Moore says that those who try to identify good with some complex property are committing what he calls the naturalistic fallacy .

pathetic

It was all just like a pathetic fallacy .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Don't believe the fallacy that money brings happiness.

It's a fallacy that all fat people are fat simply because they eat too much.

The idea that a good night's sleep will cure everything is a complete fallacy .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

However, it is important immediately to dispose of one popular fallacy .

However, the assumption that productivity must be directly related to biomass or chlorophyll is a fallacy .

It is a fallacy to think that the more information an organisation has the better will be the decisions.

It was essentially a new attempt to revive the Burkeian fallacy of empire through freedom, obedience through liberty.

The error is in taking the polynomial to be a structural representation of the system, but the basic underlying fallacy remains.

This fallacy has snared philosophers from Plato to Leibniz and beyond, and it still snares many major physicists.

This fallacy says that everything that can happen, will happen, given enough time.

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