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as in unreasonable
not using or following good reasoning
it's fallacious to say that something must exist because science hasn't proven its nonexistence
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as in misleading
tending or having power to deceive
consumers who harbor the fallacious belief that credit-card spending will never catch up with them
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Recent Examples of fallacious
Bad legislation and fallacious arguments are threatening our most renowned educational institutions, which have made major contributions to our understanding of science and society and to our health and economic well-being, institutions that are the envy of the world.
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Burton G. Malkiel, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2022
But he's been criticized by some Republicans, mostly quietly, for relentlessly supporting Trump's fallacious claims of a fraudulent election last November and for not forcefully criticizing Trump for helping provoke the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by his supporters.
—Alan Fram, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2021
Jurors got the the analytics reports, mixed with Jones’ wildly fallacious broadcast denials of the shootings, during the third day of trial in a suit against Jones and his business by a first responder and relatives of the 26 students and educators who died.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2022
In practical terms, the statement was fallacious.
—Pedro Rios, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2022
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Burton G. Malkiel, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2022
But he's been criticized by some Republicans, mostly quietly, for relentlessly supporting Trump's fallacious claims of a fraudulent election last November and for not forcefully criticizing Trump for helping provoke the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by his supporters.
—Alan Fram, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2021
Jurors got the the analytics reports, mixed with Jones’ wildly fallacious broadcast denials of the shootings, during the third day of trial in a suit against Jones and his business by a first responder and relatives of the 26 students and educators who died.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2022
In practical terms, the statement was fallacious.
—Pedro Rios, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2022
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Left in the dust ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023.Kristian Burt, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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To determine whether those amounts posed an unreasonable risk of harm, the agency compared them to a specific benchmark — the highest concentration of formaldehyde measured by government monitors in outdoor air between 2015 and 2020.Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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The lines — in banana yellows, tangerine oranges, cranberry reds — twist and turn and suggest an irrational understanding of how the universe works.Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2024
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Conversely, what then could be more wasteful, more undesirable, and more irrational than negating a large share of these conversion gains by wasting them?Vaclav Smil, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
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Lilly has sent cease-and-desist letters to numerous compounding sellers, and both companies have filed lawsuits against numerous compounding pharmacies, alleging trademark infringement and deceptive marketing.Bob Woods, CNBC, 8 Dec. 2024
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Yes, but: Brandi Tuck, executive director of the nonprofit Path Home, has been working with homeless families for nearly two decades and says those numbers are likely deceptive undercounts.Kale Williams, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
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Not least because they could easily be employed to provide a false impression of impartiality, while actually hiding their own biases in a way that the audience might not even be aware of.Federico Guerrini, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Best travel insurance policies Truth or false:There more flight disruptions during the holidays?Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024
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The center pointed out that the website shown in the viral video is illegitimate and not run by the hotel in question.Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
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San Diego County has made fighting the illegitimate businesses a priority and effectively eliminated them, The Times reported in June.Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
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Curiosity In The Billable Hour World In a world where every minute counts, taking what may feel like the long way around can seem illogical.Hunter McMahon, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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This is a holiday movie, so Avery and Logan decide to handle this situation in the most illogical way possible.Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Fallacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fallacious. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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