fallacy
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Anything less would be a fallacy, a dream of a world that we don’t, and might never, live in.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Our brains get mired in the throes of the fallacy when we feel we can’t do what we really want, simply because we’ve already invested so much in what we currently have.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“There’s a winner-take-all fallacy in certain industries,” he told MarketWatch in a recent interview, “and there are opportunities among overlooked upstarts.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Harvard Law’s Laurence Tribe traces the anomaly to a technical error: “a profound fallacy about spectrum scarcity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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I’m not alleging that Mr. Pelley deploys these fallacies consciously and with self-awareness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
“One of the fallacies is that this is only targeting Latinos. If you look at the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Chinese, even Japanese communities, they’re being picked up right in court.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
So placing that art outside time, or concocting fallacies about its artist’s intentions, has the potential to skew our perception of the art moving forward.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2024
Solicitor General, argued that if jurors pay attention to Blanche’s legal arguments, rather than his objectionable attacks on witness credibility, they would spot a number of fallacies.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
“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.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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