Quotes About Fallacy

Ev­ery­thing you re­mem­ber is wrong.

Everything you remember is wrong.

An epiphany was a useful revelation about the world around you; an apophany was a revelation, too, but wrong in that you had incorrectly discerned a pattern where none had existed, taking enlightenment from an untrue thing.

The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fallacy that had somehow landed existentialism in a cul de sac.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Un cambio de ambiente es la falacia tradicional sobre la cual descansan los amores -y los pulmones- condenados.

We could call the second problem with the current Sabbath vogue the fallacy of the direct object. Whom is the contemporary Sabbath designed to honor? Whom does it benefit? In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

If the basic fallacies, or the absence of base, in every specialization of thought can be seen by the units of its opposition, why then we see that all supposed foundations in our whole existence are myths, and that all discussion and supposed progress are the conflicts of phantoms and the overthrow of old delusions by new delusions. Nevertheless

PLATITUDE. An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Five chickens do not make a cow.

My point of view is fallacious!

I'm just a lie waiting to happen.

It is ill arguing against anything from its misuse.

To overlook extra possibilities is the fallacy of false dichotomy.

after all, in all truth there is the seed of falsehood.

The apotheosis of error, doctrine of the crowd.

the human tendency to be seduced by a theory that supposedly explains everything.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.