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Sometimes the Conclusion, offered to us, is not identical with the correct Conclusion, and yet cannot be fairly called 'Fallacious'.
The Game of Logic Lewis Carroll 1865
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Fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
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Fallacious arguments are one that starts with a sentence like: “everyone knows this to be true”, or “even a 3rd grader should be able to …”, or “only the stupidest people believe …”.
Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand? 2010
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Fallacious as this course of reasoning is, it enlists State pride, and finds advocates in the honest prejudices of those who have not studied the nature of our government sufficiently to see the radical error on which itrests.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Firing Back on Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism 2009
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Fallacious archaic oppositions are revived — regionalisms and racisms which serve to endow mundane rankings in the hierarchies of consumption with a magical ontological superiority — and pseudoplayful enthusiasms are aroused by an endless succession of ludicrous competitions, from sports to elections.
The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009
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Fallacious reasoning by Tom Murphy on Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 10: 14: 31 PM faith is just that ... faith by jersey girl on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 8: 44: 12 AM
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Factual response to the 'talking points' being manufactured by the Chronically Fallacious on the subject: 'I'm ... appalled ... by the conservative myth-making that's going on around the very serious issue of right-wing domestic terrorism.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Firing Back on Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism 2009
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Fallacious archaic oppositions are revived — regionalisms and racisms which serve to endow mundane rankings in the hierarchies of consumption with a magical ontological superiority — and pseudoplayful enthusiasms are aroused by an endless succession of ludicrous competitions, from sports to elections.
2009 September 2009
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Fallacious logic has clearly become the new trend in our culture.
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