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"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

“There’s this fallacy that companies were lowering the bar,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

As mentioned in Chapter 2, however, it should be carefully distinguished from the gambler’s fallacy, to which it bears a superficial resemblance.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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’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