fallacy
Example Sentences
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In such a predicament, many would fall prey to a mixed-up way of thinking called the “sunk cost fallacy,” which is best explained by telling a brief story.
From Literature
That would be a fallacy, but Mr. Bottum didn’t commit it.
“There’s this fallacy that companies were lowering the bar,” she says.
I place that term in quotation marks since, as many people have said and continue to say, the version of “debate” that Kirk popularized is a wrestling match in a mud pit of logical fallacies.
From Salon
Even neomercantilists have a little point buried in a heap of fallacies.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
