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fallacy

[fal-uh-see] / ˈfæl ə si /


Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal

On wages, Mr. Vance is repeating the lump of labor fallacy that American and foreign workers compete for a limited number of jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal

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 The Wall Street Journal