How to Use fallacy in a Sentence
fallacy
noun
- The fallacy of their ideas about medicine soon became apparent.
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Part of the fun of it, in a way, is trying to find the fallacy or the hole in the dastardly scheme.
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Dallas News,
13 July 2021
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The notion that the plant kingdom is benign is a fallacy.
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Tamar Adler,
Vogue,
12 Apr. 2019
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The fallacy lies in the assumption that any of these pickups could replace a car.
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Don Sherman,
Car and Driver,
25 Feb. 2023
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Even if that is true, the notion that this proves Trump was wrong is a fallacy.
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Jonathan S. Tobin,
National Review,
12 Dec. 2017
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The movie is slightly prone to such fallacies, starting with the title.
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Glenn Kenny,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2018
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Back home in New York, the fallacy plays out in reverse.
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Gregory Krieg,
CNN,
7 July 2017
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On the menu today: the economics of a blue wave and a reevaluation of the sunk cost fallacy.
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Daniel Tenreiro,
National Review,
2 Nov. 2020
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The idea the food doesn’t need to be subsidized, that tech workers make so much, is a fallacy.
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Nellie Bowles,
The Seattle Times,
31 July 2018
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So a good way to combat the planning fallacy is to break up a complex project into many sub-tasks.
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Dan Ariely,
WSJ,
10 Dec. 2020
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There’s a bit of a fallacy in that some expect teams that have overachieved to maintain their success for the rest of the season.
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Michael Arinze,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Nov. 2022
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These self-conscious times have furnished us with a new fallacy.
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Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2020
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The sunk cost fallacy is another cognitive bias that can lead to fraud.
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Dr. Gleb Tsipursky,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2023
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There's a fallacy out there that there's a partnership, and there's not.
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Dave Clark,
The Enquirer,
25 Mar. 2021
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That’s a fallacy that tribal nations spend a lot of time trying to dispel.
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New York Times,
25 May 2021
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Adele is trying to teach you an economics lesson in the sunk-cost fallacy.
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Natalie Lin,
Vulture,
20 Nov. 2021
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Early on, when Lasley is still in the first flush of love, a friend tells her what a sunk-cost fallacy is.
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Amber Medland,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2022
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Many have already pointed out the fallacies in Trump’s tweets.
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Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2019
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This is a logical fallacy known as begging the question.
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Teddy McDarrah,
Forbes,
28 June 2021
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The first fallacy is founded on the philosophy that wages are set by supply and demand.
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Karan Chopra,
Fortune,
9 July 2020
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That fantasy ranks right up there with the gambler’s fallacy.
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Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Nov. 2021
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So the context of him committing suicide while on watch, that’s just a fallacy.
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Cnn.com Wire Service,
The Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2019
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The antidote to the price-equals-wealth fallacy is to scale down your expectations.
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William Baldwin,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2021
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Murray's second contract was the sunk cost fallacy run amok.
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Jeremy Cluff,
The Arizona Republic,
5 June 2023
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There is a way to overcome, or at least mitigate, the planning fallacy.
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Christopher Cox,
Time,
15 July 2021
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Rarely has so much fallacy fit so comfortably into so few words.
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John Tamny,
Forbes,
9 May 2021
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Bad ideas, in other words, collapse on their own fallacies.
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The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Aug. 2017
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The fallacy of indispensability snares a lot of us, not just the ones with tough parental legacies like yours.
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Carolyn Hax,
oregonlive,
30 Sep. 2019
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But parenting is a ceaseless reminder of the fallacy of control.
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Damon Young,
Washington Post,
20 June 2022
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To insist otherwise is a variation on the sunk cost fallacy.
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A. O. Scott,
New York Times,
25 May 2017
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