Quotes About Fallacy

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin.

Do whatever it takes to avoid fooling yourself into believing that something is true when it is false, or that something is false when it is true.

Reality has a deep dimension often operating below the surface of empirical experience. To think otherwise is to commit what critical realists call the epistemic fallacy, namely, to reduce what is to what we can empirically observe. That is a debilitating move.

It is of interest that from the seventeenth century the word 'vicious' was used to describe a fault in logic, when a conclusion was realized by false means of reasoning. Webster's third definition of the vicious circle cites this fault in logic: 'an argument which is invalid because its conclusion rests upon a premise which itself depends on the conclusion.

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

The very best that can be said is that he uttered a string of fatuous non sequiturs. There is not even a strand of chewing gum to connect the premise to the conclusion;

He said the Iroquois was "completed and OK." Neither of those things were true.

Für jedes komplexe Problem gibt es eine einfache Lösung, und die ist die falsche.

The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate.

The apparency of an answer can be mistaken for the answer.' A parallel is that 'the apparency of a result can be mistaken for the result.

There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!

Often people's worst pain is built on a false premise.

Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.

according to rationality norms requiring only internal coherence, one can be perfectly consistent, and yet wrong about everything

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

The most dangerous thing is, in believing falsity is truth, treating it as such.

The people's inclination to falsity best defines the human problem.

The Antidotal Nature of Love makes Hatred a Fallacy

There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think but I'm not brave enough to say,' and that's not particularly true.

There is no such thing as 'separation of church and state.' Reporters continue to promote this fallacy and scare Christians out of standing up for their beliefs.

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

The message of The Winner Takes It All is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.