Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“Amos and I introduced the idea of a conjunction fallacy, which people commit when they judge a conjunction of two events (here,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think it's a total fallacy for people to say, "You couldn't make those old movies today." I think there's more ways… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I remember reading about a court case where a man tried to stab a judge with a pencil. There are Google pages… — Don Ihde Copy Share Image
If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to… — Ernst T. Krebs Copy Share Image
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, a combat with… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
“The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Trying to think inside Finn's head was like committing what our English master called Pathetic Fallacy, the attribution of human emotions to… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
“It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“And there is the fallacy of existence: the idea that one would be happy forever and aye with a given situation or… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We cannot always convince people with truth, logic and reason. We do need fallacy to make them believe; because even the best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thomas Friedman, the New York Times foreign affairs columnist, in his typical fashion, trivialized—and did much to popularize—the “dictator’s dilemma” fallacy by… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis… — John Searle Copy Share Image
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