Quotes About Fallacy

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

Karl Popper once said that attempts to create heaven on earth invariably produce hell.

logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

This is PCE's core fallacy—that a society's mode of expression is productive of its attitudes rather than a product of those attitudes 63 —and of course it's nothing but the obverse of the politically conservative SNOOT's delusion that social change can be retarded by restricting change in standard usage.

Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.

post hoc, propter hoc

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

The belief in the innate virtues of constitutions is as baseless as was the belief in the natural superiorities of royal personages.

It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe." Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves.

Seems does not make it so.

I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.

in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking the action.

Smith strongly emphasizes that it is a fallacy to believe that our original moral perceptions of conduct are based on reason, even in those cases where general rules grow directly out of our experience and become an emergent order. These perceptions and the experience on which rules are founded are a consequence of our minds but not of reasoned thoughts:

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing

That's the second time you've presumed to know my thoughts and been wrong about it.

logic, as the TFN knew, was often no more than a way of going wrong with confidence

logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.

The appearance of right often leads us wrong.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

Life sucks when you find out Superman's a jerk.

The fallacy in Peter's mind was this: he believed his relationship was dependent on his consistency in producing the qualities he thought had earned him the Lord's approval.