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Example sentences for "false analogy"

  • Some curious instances of false analogy are to be found in the arguments of the Stoics to prove the equality of all crimes, and the equal wretchedness of all who had not realized their idea of perfect virtue.

  • The expression has become a part of language by means of the extension of a false analogy.

  • Probably, it is neither one nor the other exactly, but the effect of a false analogy.

  • That the latter ones are irregularly participial, and have been formed on a false analogy.

  • That the latter ones are participial, and have been formed on a false analogy.

  • A notable example of conclusive refutation of an argument based on a false analogy is to be found in William James's Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality.

  • A peculiar danger of the argument from analogy is the fallacy which is known as false analogy, or reasoning to a conclusion which the similarity does not support.

  • I have already spoken of some of the dangers to which reasoning is subject--false analogy, faulty generalization of various kinds, and various sins against the rules of the syllogism.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    among primitive; called them; extraordinary degree; false alarm; false claim; false faith; false gods; false knight; false note; false oath; false opinion; false pretences; false prophet; false prophets; false show; false step; fine state; mind was; shell thick; short distance above the; still didn; then boil; thy word; universal education; watery grave; wedding reception