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It's the problem of the fallacy of affirming the consequent.
And weren't we all taught in school that the appeal to authority is a logical fallacy?
That error is so common, we even have a name for it: affirming the consequent, or the fallacy of the converse.
This fallacy wrongly assumes that just because a certain condition is necessary for a given result, it must also be sufficient for it.
This is what's called a conjunction fallacy.
This is a phenomenon known as the conjunction fallacy.
The conjunction fallacy isn’t just a problem in hypothetical situations.
Conspiracy theories and false news stories often rely on a version of the conjunction fallacy to seem credible– the more resonant details are added to an outlandish story, the more plausible it begins to seem.
But this is a fallacy.
And the fallacy comes from idealizing a past that we have forgotten about.
And so the fallacy that we need this resource and we can actually make it in a time frame that is meaningful is not possible.
The concept of length of coastline, which seems to be so natural because it's given in many cases, is, in fact, complete fallacy; there's no such thing.
Especially now, as we all must confront the fallacy of a market-only orientation, uninformed by social conscience; we must seize and celebrate the power of the arts to shape our individual and national characters, and especially characters of the young people, who all too often are subjected to bombardment of sensation, rather than digested experience.
It's often said that those who forget about the helpful side of technological progress, those complementarities from before, are committing something known as the lump of labor fallacy.
Now, the problem is the lump of labor fallacy is itself a fallacy, and I call this the lump of labor fallacy fallacy, or LOLFF, for short.
The lump of labor fallacy is a very old idea.
Schloss called this "the lump of labor fallacy."
And today you hear people talk about the lump of labor fallacy to think about the future of all types of work.
i wasn't alive in the 60s to know first hand whether or not esp was a common fallacy then, but i assume that any theory of such nature would simply be discredited.
This is an argumental fallacy and is not a valid criticism of the movie itself.
The idea that, when the going gets tough, an EU country can solve all of its problems by reverting to pure national sovereignty is an intellectual fallacy, a political chimera, and thus a source of considerable social frustration.
To understand the fallacy, consider your interaction with the neighborhood grocery store.
Against this background, the notion that force alone can transform conflict-riven societies in the Middle East and elsewhere is a dangerous fallacy.
A new and more realistic monetary paradigm would discard overly rigid rules that embody the fallacy that monetary policy is always effective.
Another “jobs fallacy” is that when a job disappears in a Western country and turns up in India, it must have been “exported” by nefarious businessmen.
Keynes pointed out the fallacy here: while the income derived from production is, by definition, equal to the value of production, it does not follow that all this income will be spent.
Seventy years ago, John Maynard Keynes pointed out its fallacy.
But this approach suffers from a fatal fallacy: if booms are fueled by underestimation of risks, and regulation is made more sensitive to the estimation of risks, booms will be bigger and busts deeper.
Moreover, there is a fallacy of composition: if there are too many debt collectors, they will impoverish the very people on whom their own prosperity depends.
The fallacy in the anti-abortion argument lies in the shift from the scientifically accurate claim that the fetus is a living individual of the species Homo sapiens to the ethical claim that the fetus therefore has the same right to life as any other human being.
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