English example sentences with "fallacy"

That's not a valid argument. It's a logical fallacy.
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The fact that most criminals belong to a certain group does not imply that most members of that group are criminals. To claim that it does is to commit the inverse fallacy.
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Let me therefore enter upon this noble cause with a chearfulness, grounded upon this assurance, that my adversary's cause is maintain'd by nothing but fraud, fallacy, ignorance and barbarity; whereas mine has light, truth, reason, the practice and the learning of the best ages of the world, of its side.
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This is a fallacy.
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If a hotelier touts an unproven or dangerous medicine, or if a film actor sells polished stones or scented candles with purported health benefits, these are examples of a kind of informal fallacy called an "appeal to authority".
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Although an appeal to popularity is in fact a logical fallacy, a religious person may sometimes speak of an ecumenical truth as being right or true because everyone believes it.
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Finishing a book or movie you've started but don't like is a good example of the sunk cost fallacy.
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Affirming the consequent is an example of a formal logical fallacy.
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Those rumors are a fallacy.
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Stating that Berber dialects are separate languages is a common fallacy upheld by Western linguists who have little knowledge about the linguistic reality of North Africa. Mutual intelligibility among Berber speakers, particularly those who speak Northern Berber dialects is a verifiable fact.
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There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another.
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Death of the author or the intentional fallacy goes hand in hand with the affective fallacy, which says that a reader's emotional reaction to a book is not relevant unless backed by the text.
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An appeal to common sense is a type of argument from incredulity, a logical fallacy.
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