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Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form. -- Immanuel Kant
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. -- Edward Gibbon
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. -- Saint John Chrysostom
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. -- Hypatia
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. -- Stokely Carmichael
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause. -- Zadie Smith
The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students. -- Zadie Smith
I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences. -- Robert Winston
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. -- Primo Levi
I don't think anyone thinks that the SAT score is a measure of your innate intelligence. It is not. That is a fallacious concept, and we at Kaplan, and others who are in a position, should be out there making sure people know this is nothing, this score does not have anything to do with your innate intelligence. -- Jonathan Grayer
the truth is artistically fallacious. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. -- Henry Fuseli
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. -- Saint John Chrysostom
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. -- Carl Sagan
Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. -- Sydney Smith
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies -- Edmund Randolph
Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth. -- Alain Badiou
There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter. -- Robert Browning
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical. -- Alfred North Whitehead
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious. -- George Washington
We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular. -- Benjamin Graham
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings. -- Jose Raul Capablanca

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