fallacy
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That is a causal fallacy dressed up as moral clarity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
"This is the sunk cost fallacy," he said, adding that "it keeps the addictive behaviour loop".
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
"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
The sunk-cost fallacy tempts people to pay escalating premiums because they’ve paid for so long.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
“Do you honestly not see the logical fallacy there? You’re checking to see if this person’s online persona is fake...online.”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
Following along as he picks data fallacies apart is a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to read the whole book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
"There's a lot of eye rolling... People can point out the inconsistencies and the fallacies pretty quickly," said the official.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 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
Vocabulary lists containing fallacy
Argumentative Writing
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Power Suffix: -acy
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