fallacy
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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
"This is the sunk cost fallacy," he said, adding that "it keeps the addictive behaviour loop".
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
When dealing with Jobs, the sunk cost fallacy was no fallacy at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
Loss aversion, sunk-cost fallacy and herd behavior — all of it kicks in during a drawdown.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
To appreciate the fallacy, consider a visitor from Outer Space who dropped in on Earth in the year 3000 B.C.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Even neomercantilists have a little point buried in a heap of fallacies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
“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
Here are four of his essay’s more obvious fallacies.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
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
It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing fallacy
Argumentative Writing
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Power Suffix: -acy
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