fallacy

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"I think the thing young founders get wrong is they view hours worked in and of itself as necessary and sufficient to think of themselves as productive. And that's where the fallacy lies", he explains.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

“A major fallacy is assuming that policies that work in one country will automatically work in another,” Josh Michaud, the associate director of global health and public health policy at KFF, told Salon.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026

The sunk-cost fallacy tempts people to pay escalating premiums because they’ve paid for so long.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

That would be a fallacy, but Mr. Bottum didn’t commit it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

“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