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Example sentences for "fallacies"

Lexicographically close words:
falconry; falcons; fale; falis; fall; fallacious; fallaciousness; fallacy; fallait; fallax
  1. In the short view of his doctrines which I am about to give, these fallacies will become evident.

  2. Strip it of its fallacies and its fiction, and where are you?

  3. Mr. Scribner be if his article were stripped of its fallacies and its fiction?

  4. Therefore we may say that Socialism has no scientific basis, unless we choose to call science a collection of fallacies expressed in involved terms so as to deceive the simple.

  5. She came, as Stedman says, “with gentle satire or sparkling epigram to brush aside the fads and fallacies of this literary fin de siècle, calling upon us to return to the simple ways of the masters.

  6. She has no fads to air in ungrammatical English, no fallacies to adduce in halting metre.

  7. Fallacies in Fiction I have come to the conclusion that the contrariness of human nature is largely responsible for the rejection of many of the MSS.

  8. Exposition of Fallacies in the Hypotheses of Darwin," Bree's, i.

  9. Part of an examination in mathematics should test students' ability to attack new problems, to plan a line of work, to think mathematically, to avoid typical fallacies of thought.

  10. His logic gives itself to the discussion of such patent fallacies as, "A good teacher knows his subject; Williams knows his subject, therefore he is a good teacher.

  11. At last he is to learn the laws of thought which will render him keen in detection of fallacies and potent in the presentation of argument.

  12. These considerations would probably not have arisen so distinctly to her mind, at this time, had not the terrors of Valancourt presented to her such obvious exaggerations of her danger, as incited her to distrust the fallacies of passion.

  13. The doctrine of the kinds of fallacies or general classes of errors into which the human mind is prone to fall, appears in many of the works written before the Novum Organum, and the treatment of them varies in some respects.

  14. The first kind are the Idola Tribus, idols of the tribe, fallacies incident to humanity or the race in general.

  15. As soon as the errors of one set of people have been made apparent, another set has arisen with fresh objections, or the old fallacies have reappeared in another shape.

  16. Plausible as, in parts, it may have appeared, I have little doubt that the reader will have already detected the greater number of the fallacies which underlie it.

  17. We all know what specious fallacies may be urged in defense of every act of injustice yet proposed for the imaginary benefit of the mass.

  18. The affection of the people for democracy makes them blind and uncritical in regard to it, and they are as fond of the political fallacies to which democracy lends itself as they are of its sound and correct interpretation, or fonder.

  19. One of the oldest and most mischievous fallacies in this country has been the notion that we are better than other nations, and that Government has a smaller and easier task here than elsewhere.

  20. It is plain what fallacies are developed when we overlook this distinction.

  21. The "poor man" is an elastic term, under which any number of social fallacies may be hidden.

  22. The reader who desires to guard himself against fallacies should always scrutinize the terms "poor" and "weak" as used, so as to see which or how many of these classes they are made to cover.

  23. Herschel, fancying that the promoters instinctively knew better than to bring their fallacies before a writer on logic.

  24. This it will do: it is one of those fallacies which are very tempting.

  25. The distinctness of the fallacies is creditable to the composers, and shows that scientific habits tend to clearness, even to sophistry.

  26. Many are the offences of the adversary under this head; but his case is made out by four fallacies chiefly, fallacies which I would rather unravel in the University than in a popular audience.

  27. Multa peccat adversarius in hoc genere; sed quatuor fallacies plerumque consuitur, quas in Academia malim, quam in trevio, retexere.

  28. The treatment of solecism and barbarism in grammar corresponded to that of fallacies in logic.

  29. And being thus suddenly called up by a sense of duty to himself and his friends, he would do justice upon the report at once, exposing its numerous fallacies from the moment they appeared in the chamber.

  30. Speculators, monopolies, the fall in the price of real estate all over the Union; these were exploded fallacies which he was sorry to see paraded here again, and which he should not detain the Senate to answer.

  31. In like manner the French Revolution would never have had a beginning but for the teaching of the philosophers and the prevalence of equalitarian fallacies among the privileged classes themselves.

  32. The true test of fallacies of this kind is progression.

  33. The technical designation for one of the commonest fallacies is post hoc, ergo propter hoc; the belief that because one thing comes after another, it comes because of the other.

  34. Sidenote: Imagination a medium of realizing the absent and significant] There are several fallacies in this way of thinking.

  35. Thus after committing a number of fallacies on its own account, the teleological argument itself endorses all those that are involved in the more a priori proofs.

  36. V One of the subtlest fallacies by which we miss believing in an earnest God is not describable as an opinion.

  37. VII From all these common fallacies of thought and sentiment one turns to the New Testament to find the God of the Gospel.

  38. Let us therefore consider some of the fallacies that enable men to believe in a God who is not in earnest.

  39. The intent of Porta was to expose the frauds and fallacies of Galileo.

  40. The education of the young has been monopolized by priests in order to perpetuate the fallacies of theology, and all endeavor to put education on a footing of usefulness and utility has been fought inch by inch.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fallacies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.