(n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
(n.) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
Example Sentences:
(1) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."
(2) Once availed of the fallacy that athletes are role models, there’s a certain purity that feels almost quaint in an era of athlete as brand.
(3) It's a fallacy, because there is no such thing as 'the people'.
(4) In 2 experiments, representativeness was pitted against probability combination to determine the contributions of each to the fallacy.
(5) It is argued that Western science reductionist approaches to the classification of "mass hysteria" treat it as an entity to be discovered transculturally, and in their self-fulfilling search for universals systematically exclude what does not fit within the autonomous parameters of its Western-biased culture model, exemplifying what Kleinman (1977) terms a "category fallacy."
(6) Attempts have been made to avoid the fallacies with the introduction of quadrilateral and Wits analyses.
(7) Greater efforts to verify the characteristics of apparently discordant pairs than to verify those of apparently concordant pairs can result in the 'unequal ascertainment' fallacy.
(8) It's pure ad hominem (in the classic sense of the logical fallacy): "who is "Cornell [ sic ] West" to think that anything he says should be even listened to by "national security professionals"?
(9) For example, the fallacy is committed when a study contains the conclusion that TV advertising increases preference for sugar-based foods, but the reader later believes that the study concluded that TV advertising should be controlled.
(10) Typically, people get honours for their charity work, and I've never even agreed with that, since it tends to mean donations, which tend to proceed from wealth, and all it does is lock down and make flesh the fallacy that rich people are more honourable than everyone else.
(11) In our response, we place special emphasis on the fallacy of using nondiscriminating similarities between groups (e.g., suicidal ideation) as a basis for positing disease homogeneity.
(12) This is a good example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc – “after this, therefore because of this” – fallacy.
(13) The author discusses the fallacy in the orthodox interpretation of Wolff's law, and suggests that a "resolution length restriction" be imposed on the trajectorial theory to avoid interpretations that lead to the fallacy.
(14) Simulation can validate a proposed policy, uncover fallacies of a proposal, or determine the sensitivity of the response to a policy change.
(15) being involved is the idea – and it is a core capitalist idea – that if you provide people with perfect information about a market you will be able to make perfect decisions, which is just fallacious in the context of higher education.
(16) The Lib Dem deputy leader, Simon Hughes, told the BBC that the no camp had conducted a "fundamentally fallacious campaign" which would affect the coalition.
(17) It is fallacious to assume that the conditions were worse in the past as it is fallacious to assume that they were better.
(18) Of course the polarisation of old and young rests on a fallacy, if not a downright lie: that all young people possess perfect skin and gleaming hair, have non-stop sex, are bursting with energy and are never lonely.
(19) Amniotomy followed by oxytocin infusion is advocated to simulate the progress of normal labour unless this is evident from an early stage.Oxytocin, the dose of which is limited only by foetal distress, cannot be used effectively unless three popular fallacies are rejected.
(20) While the error of indulging in fantasies such as the " Twitter revolution " and the collapsing Islamic Republic may be understandable, I wonder if the flawed logic that allowed for such fallacies is.
Fallibility
Definition:
(n.) The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultimately, we are fallible and forgetful, so the best way to solve the problem is as always choice-editing or design this inconvenience out.
(2) The retroperitoneum was the most common site of an occult primary tumour and its careful examination therefore crucial: computed tomography scanning was found least fallible in this respect in the present series.
(3) We should appreciate then that this continues to be an Arsenal team in the shadow of their prolonged fallibility.
(4) This presentation will discuss the fallibility of this important sign in the evaluation of a retropharyngeal abscess in children.
(5) Some remarks on the fallibility of X-ray diagnosis are included.
(6) Second is the reality of our necessary fallibility and how we cope effectively with the fact that our knowledge is always limited.
(7) By his own lofty standards Cavendish's return of two stage wins from this year's Tour has been paltry and myriad signs of hitherto unseen fallibility, a team that is clearly not good enough to work in his service and suggestions that his star is on the wane will leave him with much to ponder.
(8) Personal experience would therefore appear to point to the total fallibility of the clinical diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis of the lower extremities and the consequent need for a constant objective instrumental diagnostic approach to this type of pathology.
(9) Considering the risks and fallibility of anticysticercal therapy, the real solution for this serious disease continues to be prophylaxis of infestation.
(10) It was a migraine-inducing reminder of this team's fallibility, a position of relative authority having been surrendered wastefully; even attempts to salvage a point were rather unconvincing and laced with panic.
(11) IWF's blacklist lacks this fundamental check on its own fallibility.
(12) The new consensus is that we are badly designed, intrinsically fallible, vulnerable to a host of hostile influences.
(13) Unfortunately many physicians are unfamiliar with the different venous disorders and are unaware of the fallibility of the clinical diagnosis of these syndromes.
(14) Linked with a self-deprecating acknowledgement that our own fallibility and imperfection is likely to be exposed, we at least introduce a modicum of suspicion to our consumption of dominant media and political narratives.
(15) Feminism is doing just fine, in its stumbling, fallible way, and one of its strengths is that it is making real efforts to include women who were overlooked by its earlier incarnations.
(16) America, as John Ford cannily observed in his western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is a country that likes to build up its heroes and villains and rarely appreciates having the record corrected to restore them to the stature of ordinary, fallible human beings.
(17) An autopsy study was performed to quantify diagnostic fallibility in clinical surgery.
(18) It would be outrageous for a general election result to be skewed by a fallible registration process.
(19) Recent investigations have shown that the widely used clonidine suppression test is sometimes fallible for the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma.
(20) The miracle is starting to look more and more fallible as it slumps under heavy corporate debts and an over-construction spree which shall never again be replicated in our lifetimes or that of our children.