How To Use logical fallacy In A Sentence
- Steve Salerno, author of the book SHAM: How The Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, wrote in his review of The Secret on Amazon: One seldom encounters a better/worse example of the logical fallacy known as a posteriori reasoning. Boing Boing
- It's the old post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) logical fallacy.
- If only to illustrate that I am useful for more than lounge-lizard renditions of Mahler's 2nd, I will concur with Matthew that ignoration is in the OED and has a use fitting for most things that pass for political dialog these days: Ignoration of the Elench -- and anglicized version of ignoratio elenchi, which is the logical fallacy of refuting an argument that was not made or is irrelevant to its professed purpose. Signal to noise
- An attack on someones character isn't a logical fallacy when the discussion is * about said person's character*. Digg.com: Stories / Popular
- Surely, they do not mean to do that, because such an argument is a logical fallacy.
- If only to illustrate that I am useful for more than lounge-lizard renditions of Mahler's 2nd, I will concur with Matthew that ignoration is in the OED and has a use fitting for most things that pass for political dialog these days: Ignoration of the Elench -- and anglicized version of ignoratio elenchi, which is the logical fallacy of refuting an argument that was not made or is irrelevant to its professed purpose. Signal to noise
- This is based on a logical fallacy, which is that the population of those who would own guns if they were rare is a representative sample of the population who would own guns if they were plentiful.
- This use of data at two levels of analysis seeks to minimize the problem of ecological fallacy.
- It turns out to be a technical term in the study of logic and describes a specific type of logical fallacy, a form of circular reasoning.
- It sounds like a classic example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc logical fallacy.
