Quotes About Fallacy

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.

The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

Smart people love to make smart-sounding predictions, no matter how wrong they may turn out to be.

They mistook the smoke for the fire.

fallaciously pessimistic.

our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. One therefore ought to seek good reasons for believing something. Faith, revelation, tradition, dogma, authority, the ecstatic glow of subjective certainty—all are recipes for error, and should be dismissed as sources of knowledge.

Intuitive probability is driven by imaginability: the easier something is to visualize, the likelier it seems. This entraps us into what Tversky and Kahneman call the conjunction fallacy, in which a conjunction is more intuitively probable than either of its elements.

The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tells us that men and women are fallible. One therefore ought to seek good reasons for believing something. Faith, revelation, tradition, dogma, authority, the ecstatic glow of subjective certainty - all are recipes for error, and should be dismissed as sources of knowledge.

loss aversion, the sunk-cost fallacy, and throwing good money after bad, is patently irrational, but it is surprisingly pervasive in human decision-making.

Dopeler effect n. The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

One of the most commonly cited human irrationalities is the sunk-cost fallacy, in which people continue to invest in a losing venture because of what they have invested so far rather than in anticipation of what they will gain going forward.

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." First, it is easy to assume that "nature" is something with a nature—something static.

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

The idea that people could get along fine with just markets, and no government, turned out to rest upon a version of what economists call the "compositional fallacy.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth.

Since the topic is science, the non scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. This is the fallacy called Argumentum Ad Numerum, the idea that something is true because great number believe it, as in EAT SHIT, twenty trillions flies can't be wrong!

Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that those who disagree with them are biased and thus worthy of being ignored, a convenient position that allows them to avoid debating uncomfortable criticisms.