So again with some truth of creed or catechism which we have fallen into the fallacy of supposing that we know because it is familiar.
In that one of the lives of the English Poets, where the great moralist has gone nearest to making concessions to thisfallacy of temperament, he utters this just warning.
She fell a victim to the fallacy of youthful conceit--I cannot answer this or that objection, therefore it is unanswerable.
This verse is one of those in reading which we may easily fall into the fallacy of mistaking familiarity for knowledge.
St. John utters a principle which cleaves through every fallacy in every age, which says or insinuates that sin subjective can in any case cease to be sin objective.
The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
The openfallacy of this helped to clear the question.
In passing from this subject I may note that there is a queer fallacy to the effect that materialistic fatalism is in some way favourable to mercy, to the abolition of cruel punishments or punishments of any kind.
In another chapter I have indicated the fallacy of the ordinary supposition that the world must be impersonal because it is orderly.
And it must perhaps be admitted that experience alone could fully demonstrate the safety of toleration, and show the fallacy of apprehensions that unprejudiced men might have entertained.
These expressions, and numberless others might be found, show the fallacy of Hume's hasty assertion, that the writers of the sixteenth century do not speak of their own government as more free than that of France.
They will perceive at once, that such an Assertion must be founded in the utmost Knavery or Ignorance; and they will readily discover where the Fallacy lies.
The Duke of Argyll speaks of the recent date of the demonstration of the fallacy of the doctrine in question.
Pointing out Kant’s fallacy weakens his argument as such, but it leaves us in such a dilemma that we are prone to pronounce his suggestion worth trying as an escape from conquest by one great power.
Now there was a fallacy in Kant’s argument that has a bearing on the subject immediately before us today.
Realizing, perhaps, the immense difficulty of exposing the fallacy of Douglas's reply to his questions, in the few moments at his disposal, Lincoln did not refer to the crucial point.
Yet all that he said was vitiated by a fallacy which a glance at a map of the Northwest will expose.
The ctesohedonic fallacy (lust for possession) raged in the middle ages between the nearest neighbors.
But if the ctesohedonic fallacy had been seen through by the civilized societies of the Roman period, the face of the earth would have been very different from what it is.
Yet would not the more correct judgment of Wieland perceive and expose the fallacy of his conclusions?
The fallacy in this argument is transparent: as to the industrial machinery, Soviet Russia had, and according to Rykov still has, much more than could be used.
He says that he 'immediately detected Blackstone's fallacy respecting natural rights,' thought other doctrines illogical, and was so much occupied by these reflections as to be unable to take notes.
Bentham apparently argued that a man who did not like his dinners could not appreciate his theories: a fallacy excusable only by the pettishness of old age.
Nor can it be denied that an opposite fallacy is equally possible, especially in times of revolutionary passion.
But the fallacy in this, and all other cases of the same kind, may be easily detected, in shifting the weights from one scale to the other.
There is a popular fallacy that if a horse is warm he should not be allowed to drink, many asserting that the first swallow of water "founders" the animal or produces colic.
Suppression and incontinence of urine are common also to obstruction of the urethra by stone or otherwise; hence this source of fallacy should be excluded by manual examination along the whole course of that duct.
What a dark lesson of the fallacy of human wisdom does this knowledge strike into the heart!
This being diametrically opposed to our student's idea, he endeavoured to demonstrate thefallacy of the actuary's opinion.
No one, however, will now be willing to admit that the cause of dramatic idealization is indeed bound up with the heroic couplet; and a moment's thought will show the fallacy of Dryden's assumption that it is.
From the grosser forms of this fallacy Dryden's fine sense was enough to save him.
You will now say that having proved to my own satisfaction that no man can be 'hopelessly afflicted,' I should be ready to admit the fallacy of my preachings.
I tried to make your grandfather see the utter fallacy of his—shall we call it whim?
The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice, whereas disease is not.
But he had something to consider more than they--yea, more than any other living man--in exemplification of the pleasing fallacy that besets all lovers in all ages.
That any industry, no matter how young might be the nation practicing it, or how peculiar the difficulties of its prosecution, should ever be the subject of home protection, he stamped as a fallacy too absurd to be argued.
The fallacy here arises from the assumption of a sect with a coherent system, which, as has been stated above, never had any existence.
Nor was she-as is the popularfallacy of the South-susceptible to the influence of wealth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fallacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
