Quotes About Fallacy

Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase of course or its equivalent.

Un candado no puede ser abierto dos veces. Lo que se considera retorno no es tal. Nunca hay retorno. Hay avance o cambio. Lo que se piensa que es caída no lo es; el único que cae o que cree caer es el pensamiento de caer, nunca el ser.

The idols of progress and the belief that technology will solve all our problems, he felt were profoundly wrong.

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

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

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

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

You know what they say about "truth" and "the appearance of truth" being opposites.

But Uggi was shocked and told her that lady dragons, who are in any case rare, stay at home and guard the treasure. Now this is an ancient dragon fallacy, since in fact the lady dragons are very much fiercer than any other, especially when they have a nest full of eggs. And, although this is always denied, lady dragons have been known to kill and cat other dragons and, what is worse, to take their treasures.

Humanity is the only totally false god.

that correlation does not show causation.

Este presentimiento resultaría cierto, aunque se basaba en premisas totalmente falsas.

The conclusion is that the original assumption of ordering leads us into contradiction, and so that assumption must be false.

That's the fallacy. Just because X happens and then Y happens, it doesn't mean that X caused Y.

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