The great enemies of intellectual life are superstition, gullibility, and fallacious reasoning. From LearnThat.org. [Edward O. Sisson]
fallacious hope. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
fallacious reasoning. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Nope, one-liners that are fallacious is the best you can muster I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated)] Reference
Does he not on the contrary feel a freedom of will within him, which, though you may call it fallacious, still actuates him as he decides?. From Wordnik.com. [I.4a] Reference
Both of these scenarios would rely upon the same evidence and upon equally fallacious, which is to say, ideological, perspectives. From Wordnik.com. ['At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'] Reference
I can't help laughing still at the trouble I used to have in trying to find out the meaning of that word fallacious, when I was at Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters] Reference
In the nation of Pakistan we have had an ally in some kind of fallacious marketing sense. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Herrington: No Vietnam is This] Reference
India also rejected the idea of increasing the seats in the non-permanent category as an interim measure as "fallacious". From Wordnik.com. [India News Digest: Lahore Attack A Conspiracy Against Pakistan: Musharraf] Reference
I have no idea why you consider what I said to be "fallacious," but yeah, I suppose it would also relate to progressive talk radio. From Wordnik.com. ["He's a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind I would say he's a liar, but it's a habit he ought to drop."] Reference
Flaherty's argument of tax leakage was "fallacious". From Wordnik.com. [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries]
He said it was "fallacious" to say Mashatile was demoted. From Wordnik.com. [News24 Top Stories] Reference
T-Mobile USA characterizes the allegations as "fallacious" and. From Wordnik.com. [Wireless Week Headline News] Reference
Does this spectacle of a nation drowned look 'fallacious' to you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Deluge] Reference
I have never, and neither has Andy, accepted that kind of fallacious wiki logic. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The evidence isn’t crucial, when the ID arguments are so fallacious aka IDiotic. From Wordnik.com. [Stuck on you, biological Velcro and the evolution of adaptive immunity - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"I think the thought that this is somehow an under-regulated industry is kind of fallacious," he said. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans CityBusiness] Reference
But the slaveholders knew how fallacious was this aid. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Very tempting, that fallacious argument from ignorance!. From Wordnik.com. [John Shook, Ph.D.: For Atheists and Believers, Ignorance Is No Excuse] Reference
This is both fallacious in reasoning and untrue in fact. From Wordnik.com. [Opportunities in Aviation] Reference
I hope that their expectations may not prove fallacious. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
The old saying that 'the world owes us a living' is a very fallacious one. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
Nice compliment for an author cultivating inside sources but wholly fallacious. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Afghanistan: This Way to the Egress] Reference
Mr. Thompson's financial argument against the Homestead bill is most fallacious. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
United States is fallacious -- and is harmful, because it has great popular appeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Government] Reference
The Parallelogram of Forces - its fallacious kinematic and its true dynamic interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
"It's just fallacious for the county executive to maintain there's no fiscal impact," Andrews said. From Wordnik.com. [In giving 117 years of comp time, Montgomery official hopes to heal budget wounds] Reference
It is a fallacious idea to assume that the sources of immorality are confined to the large cities. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
And, you know, the racial, you know, the racial definitions are so, I mean, they're kind of fallacious. From Wordnik.com. [10,000 Years Of History Run Through Mosley's Veins] Reference
This explanation may be as fallacious as it is acknowledged to have been in the case of the island beetles. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
This "moss-covered" idea was advanced concerning the play in Whist and Bridge, but experience proved it fallacious. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
It merely excludes the effect of disuse during lifetime, and thus presents a fallacious appearance of being decisive. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
Macaulay and examples such as term extension, software copyrights, and garage door openers, this logic is fallacious. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Besides, the instance brought from the arts is fallacious; for it is not the same thing to alter the one as the other. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
It is necessary to distinguish between such cases and the fallacious appearances arising from a division of the cotyledons. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Some care, however, is necessary in applying this test, as in the hands of inexperienced persons it is sometimes fallacious. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
Prove my position fallacious, and not predicated on principles of eternal right, and they may be blown to the four winds of heaven. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Any fine theory of being able to be a silent providence in his life is sure to prove fallacious, and to bring suffering to somebody. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
As the indications of a projected re-impression may be fallacious, I shall conclude with a word of advice to inexperienced collectors. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
There would be no need to enlarge upon this point, if it had not been made already the basis of fallacious appeals to popular ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
This argument is fallacious, for the very blue-grass region which held most of the slaves is today the most fertile section of the State. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
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