Flawed premise

Usage examples of fallacy.

Let them accede, then, to his proposition for a committee, and he would pledge himself to explode the fallacy of agricultural protection, and to put an end to the present system within two years from the publication of its report.

Villiers made a calm and effective reply, in which he especially directed his skill as a debater to the exposure of the fallacies of Sir Robert Peel, whose ignorance or partizanship he handled with a calm and dignified severity.

Professor Surdity, that the distinction between pain and pleasure is nothing but a fallacy of words?

God created the so-called anomaly so that we could at long last--but once and for all--prove the fallacy of the uniformitarian and evolutionist doctrines so dear to the scientific establishment.

Inasmuch as all uses or truths and goods of charity, which a man renders to the neighbor may be rendered either according to the appearance or according to the verities of the Word, he is in fallacies if he renders them according to the appearances he has confirmed, but renders them as he should if he does so in accord with the verities.

That was an anthropocentric fallacy that people had inherited from the ancient faiths and myths.

But all this was of no consequence now, and Bernard steered further and further away from the liability to detect fallacies in his friend.

But, on the other hand, the assumption that men are unclassifiable, because practically homogeneous, which underlies modern democratic methods and all the fallacies of our equal justice, is even more alien to the Utopian mind.

At one time, it was a common enough psychotherapeutic fallacy that subjects could get trapped in.

Credibility fallacies are those in which uncertified people present themselves as experts: the famous actor dressed as a doctor recommending a certain medicine.

Syllogism in the Second Figure with two affirmative premises, and therefore the fallacy of undistributed Middle.

That gentleman seized every opportunity, in and out of the house, to vituperate Lord Palmerston, and persisted in reiterating as facts, fallacies which had been many times exposed.

He now shall know I can produce a man, 150 Of female seed, far abler to resist All his solicitations, and at length All his vast force, and drive him back to Hell-- Winning by conquest what the first man lost By fallacy surprised.

Obviously, then, if one confirms appearances in himself, he mistakes the clothing for the man, whereupon appearance becomes fallacy.

It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable.