They also point out certain fallacies in the graphic itself.
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Fallacies taken as truth, they were akin to fake news.
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Yet memory cannot substitute for the fallacies of emotional interpretation.
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So we understood the fallacies of the game inside and out.
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"Well, your question is full of fallacies," Mr. Bolton told reporters.
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And I think as I said humans, they have their fallacies.
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The movie is slightly prone to such fallacies, starting with the title.
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There's a lot of fallacies people have when they think about Facebook.
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It is not clear that Mr. Trump recognizes all of these fallacies.
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Better to promote progress without the fuel of fallacies and irrelevant movements.
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Another of Trump's jobs fallacies is that regulation always holds companies back.
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These same fallacies have been part of Western society for hundreds of years.
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One of the fallacies of restaurant criticism is that the whole menu matters.
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Anxiety, for starters, can feed a number of existing logical fallacies called thinking traps.
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This free app explains logical fallacies in short sentences and with very brief examples.
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The infuriating thing about fallacies is that they can be so easy to fix.
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Part of that process means recognising our own biased instincts, limitations and logical fallacies.
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They disseminate lies and fallacies about Muslims to spread fear about the religion, she added.
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But it also stokes the fallacies and fantasies about what suicide can do for you.
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To that I say: Leo still won his Oscar, and you're speaking in logical fallacies.
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His strength was thinking on his feet, exposing fallacies; his cross-examinations were widely feared.
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Unfortunately his remarks are filled with lies and fallacies," ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters. "Mr.
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It is unfortunate that there is even a need for us to respond to these fallacies.
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Unfortunately his remarks are filled with lies and fallacies," ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters. "Mr.
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Fallacies of Logic lists over 100 different fallacious arguments, describing each in a paragraph or two.
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As far as purveyors of logical fallacies go, they might as well be climate change denialists.
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Like, what are the myths and fallacies of about how to attack the racial wealth gap?
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" On the fallacies of perfection and "having it all": "So, I was not perfect every single day.
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We aren't trained how to spot logical fallacies in our own arguments and the arguments of others.
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I wish I could say yes, but that question assumes the first of three fallacies about Yemen.
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She has come to lay waste to utopian fallacies, she says, and replace them with dystopian realities.
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By fallacies I don't mean the ethical problems we see in Trump's speeches: lies, personal insults, bigotry.
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DEREK STEELBERGChicago Your list of fallacies from the past omitted perhaps The Economist's most glaring error of all.
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Americans, I believe, can see through this president's falsehoods, and they will see the fallacies of this budget.
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In the Venn diagram between ABC and Lifetime, "selling women cookie-cutter romantic fallacies" is the obvious overlap.
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"This is so full of fallacies, I just assumed it was by a student," one of them said.
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Disregarding intent and opting to haphazardly formulate opinions lead to biases based off of fallacies and incomplete information.
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Getting facts ahead of fallacies in medicine is hard enough, but with sex there are many more layers.
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"They wanted to replace what they derisively called 'weather fallacies' with 'weather truths' or 'facts,'" Dr. Tucker said.
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It's exclusively about the fallacies of capitalism; it does not reckon with Hitler in any way but superficially.
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Mr. Mahnken has developed a theme set of four logical fallacies and clued them in a literal way.
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Social proof is just one of a host of logical fallacies that also cause us to overlook evidence.
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It was nonsense, meant literally: not merely wrong but actually incoherent; a mishmash of logical fallacies, lies, and contradictions.
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The only members committing actual logical fallacies — to wit, argumenta ad passiones, or "appeals to emotion" — are the men.
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Instead, fallacies are the specific techniques used to deceive, sometimes by speakers who don't even realize they're doing so.
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I looked through hundreds of logical fallacies to find a good set and learned a lot in the process.
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We needed the right combination of fallacies, wrong turns and formative relationships to lead each of us exactly here.
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They are worth discussing, as these fallacies can be significant barriers to getting the most pleasure out of drinking wine.
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The Obama agreement's geopolitical errors, its conceptual fallacies, its textual weaknesses and its operational dangers are now all too palpable.
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Scientists also exhibit other logical fallacies, when talking about UFOs, that they would deride in others when speaking of traditional disciplines.
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From the depths of Port Authority, we move to the hallowed halls of N.Y.U., where kids are learning about etymological fallacies.
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When a message is so knotted with bizarre claims, contradictions and logical fallacies the only sensible response is to stay silent.
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Bannon is warning against the demise of Jewish-Christian culture as a result of liberal fallacies, corrupt elites, and Islamic terrorists.
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Editorial There are varying degrees of absurdity in the fallacies President Trump peddled during his first week in the Oval Office.
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Of course there is a belief system that recognises logical fallacies such as confirmation bias and tries to iron them out.
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The Verge spoke to Broussard about technological fallacies, why paper can be better, and why we don't need to reinvent the wheel.
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Their criticism against the potential of free markets ring hollow and are laden with old fallacies that reek of special interest influence.
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The study found that white medical students and residents often believed incorrect and sometimes "fantastical" biological fallacies about racial differences in patients.
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Sorry, with all due respect, I think it&aposs -- I think that all of this is premised on a lot of economic fallacies.
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The Geek Social Fallacies demanded that everyone be accepted, or at least tolerated... especially in community-wide plots like the ones I ran.
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We are made to believe that we are supposed to have a Valentine's Day date, and this zine serves to debunk these fallacies.
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Mr. Kaminker is not alone in his efforts to ease these tensions over the holiday and some of the fallacies associated with it.
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Building foreign and military policies on the basis of delusions and fallacies is nationally self-defeating and can only result in further tragedies.
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As he tentatively lays out vaccine pros and cons he becomes convinced of the fallacies and dangers in the anti-vaccine movement's rhetoric.
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Talking about abortion — telling real, personal stories — helps to negate fallacies about what an abortion is like, and what kinds of women have them.
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Made up of cabinets with newspaper clippings and other ephemera, it looks to juxtapose different fallacies and absolutist claims about current affairs through collage.
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I'll let NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly field that one: Is the NHL really formulating concussion policies over basic "correlation doesn't equal causation" fallacies?
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Jean-Francois Bonnefon and the Toulouse School of Economics in France concluded from their own studies that these types of logical fallacies run rampant.
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Mercantilist fallacies ought to be recognised as such in the land of Adam Smith and David Ricardo even when clothed in modern egalitarian jargon.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — I believe that if it wasn't for the Internet, we wouldn't know quite as much about LOGICAL FALLACIES as we do now.
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Despite the gaps, logical fallacies, and evidence to its contrary, EU appeals deeply to adherents, lighting a fire not unlike a tent revival does.
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But we have yet to see whether the movement can eliminate the myths and fallacies about rape and harassment it has brought to light.
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The comments were not about pointing out fallacies in my position, but were designed to violate, to leave me psychologically broken and physically distraught.
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"If they have not been able respond with fact-based arguments, they will employ the lowest argumentative fallacies, including…ad hominem attacks," she wrote.
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If you would like to learn more about other logical fallacies and why people don't simply just talk to each other any more, click here.
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For all the talk about the fantasies and fallacies of porn, it's notable that there is something not entirely real about these online outlets, either.
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"One of the great recurring fallacies of this sort of nutrition guru wannabe is the conflation of the part for the whole," Katz tells me.
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Have you ever fallen prey to any of the logical fallacies it describes — for example, confirmation bias, the perfectionist fallacy, or confusing correlation with causation?
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Often relying on stilted scripts, logical fallacies, or blatant lies, these ads follow in a pre-TV tradition of anti-pot propaganda films as well.
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Fallacies abound, the most common being that it is a sauce made of chocolate, an ingredient that appears only occasionally, as in the semisweet poblano.
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"You can't be my girlfriend after five days of hanging out," Daniel tried to argue, instead revealing one of the central fallacies of the entire operation.
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Because Trump was the most aberrant presidential candidate in modern history, it is incumbent upon his loyalists to use whataboutist fallacies as first-line argumentative defenses.
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Barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which he hopes people will not notice.
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In fact, the pointing out of these fallacies seems to have become almost an Olympic sport, if you hang out in certain places on the Web.
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That's why I was so entertained when I solved David Liben-Nowell's and Tom Pepper's crossword that highlights the fallacies CIRCULAR REASONING and BEGging THE QUESTION.
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This set up a familiar fight for Trump: Him, his ego and his fallacies on one side, and truth, science and proper processes on the other.
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A separate Brigham Young University study has found that emotionally driven financial fallacies can go hand in hand, said co-author and BYU psychology professor Harold Miller.
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To paraphrase the President, "I believe that real and positive immigration reform is possible, as long as we focus" on real immigration problems and not populist fallacies.
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In Battlefield 1, you're constantly reminded of the timeless fallacies soldiers are told about war, the contradictions that become all too obvious in the heat of battle.
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The app mimics the interactive book of the same name that contains a glossary of the false arguments or logical fallacies that are sometimes made by politicians.
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From the mid-1920s, when Hugo Gernsback coined the term "science fiction," several fallacies became associated with the increasingly vigorous commercial genre and never entirely went away.
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Her most recent column, titled "The Fallacies of Santos" published on May 15, listed the perceived mistakes made by President Juan Manuel Santos in negotiations with rebels.
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"Barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which he hopes people will not notice," Amash said.
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"Barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which he hopes people will not notice," he said.
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The Verge spoke to Poldrack about the limits and possibilities of fMRI, the fallacies that people commit in interpreting its results, and the limits of its widespread use.
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Instead, she seems to have subscribed to the same fallacies as all those who have been defending Kavanaugh in recent days by attacking the women who accused him.
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If they supported someone's opinions about a candidate, the public was more likely to believe them — and later articles that corrected those fallacies failed to shift the dial.
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In any event, my point, which I develop more fully in "Why the Late Justice Scalia Was Wrong: The Fallacies of Constitutional Textualism," was that textualism contradicts itself.
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The opposite happened—the more I studied, the more I realized how much of what we were led to believe was based on logical fallacies and blind faith.
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Through my work as a journalist and documentary filmmaker, I have discovered that you have to be honest with the audience about your misbehaving, fallacies, your shortcomings and failures.
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It is central to various gambling fallacies, like the idea that red is more or less likely to turn up on a roulette table after a string of reds.
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Indeed, Trump's in-house legal adviser, Michael Cohen, has recently repeated the fallacies, claiming it would be "malpractice" to advise Trump to release his returns while they are being audited.
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Hardcore offers a brutally honest look at humanity's dark side, the myth of meritocracy, and the fallacies and concessions we make to keep up with the competition in modern life.
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Such fallacies are nothing new, and they're not limited to English — Aristotle, after all, seems to have been the first person to catalogue examples — but they are easy to spot.
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My friend John (name changed) shared a political opinion in a post, then a friend of a friend reacted with personal attacks, logical fallacies and the whole arsenal of troll techniques.
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But Isenberg falls prey to one of the most common and pernicious fallacies in American popular discourse about class: For her, America's landless farmers and precarious workers are by default white.
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In addition to the misguided notion that all Arabs are Muslim, Mr. Kasbo addresses other pet-peeve fallacies in the film, including the idea that Arab-Americans come from unsophisticated cities.
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Hilan WarshawNew York To the Editor: Maybe Chris Hughes is right, maybe he's not, but his arguments in the video accompanying the article, while well delivered, rely on too many fallacies.
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Evan Mahnken returns to describe some of these types of fallacies, so you can be on the lookout for them when someone accuses you of having the wrong opinion about pasta.
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" GUILLERMO ROMERO, FORMER ECONOMY MINISTER OF THE OPPOSITION-CONTROLLED CENTRAL MEXICAN STATE OF GUANAJUATO, ON TWITTER "The message of president AMLO was full of economic fallacies, without its historical context. Worrying.
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"The idea that a relationship should just be able to grow spontaneously is one of the fallacies that society has created," says Kelley Johnson, PhD, a clinical sexologist based in North Carolina.
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Bill Nicholov's commentary "When Greece and Hillary Clinton tried to erase Macedonia" is rife with historical fallacies and comes across sounding more like a baseless, erroneous rant without the support of facts.
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And looking at those changes in the balance of payments also offers a good way to debunk some of the fallacies that all too often creep in when we discuss these issues.
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They might be partly true; they might be entirely true; even if false, they compel purveyors of the prevailing wisdom to take a hard look at their reasoning and fix any fallacies.
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The doomsday scenarios posited by the restaurant lobby have been exposed for the fallacies they are; neither jobs nor tips are going away in California or any other One Fair Wage state.
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There were acrimonious debates following the financial crisis of 2008: one plausible explanation for economists' misreading was that, given the growing dominance of mathematics in economics, it became difficult to detect economic fallacies.
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Fallacies about imports and the trade deficit, as well as the myth of manufacturing decline, form the basis for Navarro's policy prescriptions, which include subsidizing exports and taxing imports to achieve trade balance.
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While many congressional Republicans fully recognize the fallacies of these policies and the irrationality of leaving trade alliances and institutions that have served American interests for decades, they lack the courage to act.
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One of the things I've come to think about you that I actually did not come into this believing is, you're very quick to see a lot of psychological tendencies, cognitive fallacies, etc.
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In an astonishing 17-minute howl of disappointment, he undoes a lifetime of indoctrination as he dissects the logical fallacies on which, he feels, his parents' values — and Yale's, and Hillcrest's — are based.
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The escalating jeremiad against "big tech" firms — particularly the idea that they are rapacious monopolists — has long since gone viral and is now hardening into conventional wisdom, but it is grounded in fallacies.
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They'd say he's too ensnared by neoliberal dogma in counting on price mechanisms to drive necessary change, and he'd say they're indulging in central planning fallacies that will end in boondoggles and tears.
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The episode's stunning, visually gray Icelandic landscape is everything fans of euro noir will have come to expect from the genre and its pathetic fallacies — bleak crimes playing out against even bleaker landscapes.
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It embodies the fallacies I remember about Texas and further testifies to the United States: endless resource and space, manifest destiny, and the exclusion of the individuals who have been here the entire time.
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But if I assigned any parts of The Swerve, my students would immediately see the fallacies in this argument because they learn a different story in my classes, from the medieval works I assign them.
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By the time the Great Recession struck, the right-leaning side of the profession had entered a Dark Age, having retrogressed to the point where famous economists trotted out 30s-era fallacies as deep insights.
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Yellowstone is about maintaining aging rancher masculinity as the world shifts around you, it's about not-good-enough-son masculinity, it's about the fallacies of stoic individualism and the masculine identity that serves as its foundation.
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In these moments before Monday afternoon when the buzzer sounds, it's easy to jump to conclusions at what's being whispered, or to even fall for bald-faced fallacies published on fake Twitter accounts perpetrated by cyber anarchists.
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While the movie provides solid cases against the logical fallacies made by left-wing activists, it fails to address free-speech violations on the political right and takes the safest route possible by preaching to the choir.
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In fact, I will assign Trump's letter to my speechwriting students at American University because I want them to see this rich compendium of the fallacies so traditional in political rhetoric, in order to avoid repeating them.
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Neither Navjot nor Chicago has pursued "the masterpiece" fallacies of art-making — but if Chicago has "The Dinner Party," then Navjot has "Lacuna in Testimony" (2003), which is a symphonic intersection of High Modernism and contemporary social critique.
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" Barrish separately complained to editors at AP about its review of publicly accessible material on Trump employees' social media accounts, saying "the liberal media, yellow journalists are really grasping at straws with their ad hominem circumstantial logical fallacies!
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In a letter to The Economist (January 3rd 1953), he took you to task for ruling out flexible exchange rates as a cure for the dollar shortage, accusing you of perpetuating "mercantilist fallacies" dressed up in "egalitarian jargon".
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The hyperbole and fallacies being callously thrown around by opponents of the Adoption Provider Act aren't just a disservice to civil discourse, it's a move that makes it harder and harder for children to ever find a home.
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When the crisis struck, it was amazing how many successful academics turned out not to know things every economist would have known in 1970, and indeed resurrected 1930-vintage fallacies in the belief that they were profound insights.
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Mr. Trump has given conflicting signals about whether he understands the difference between fallacies uttered by the president of the United States and promotional puffery from a real estate developer boasting of his latest hotel or golf course.
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The science of human-caused global warming "is not settled"The logical fallacies that pervade the entire report start with title and introduction, which reiterate the enduring alternative fact that human-caused global warming is still up for debate.
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Brexit and its ongoing fallout is to blame for the electorate's latest display of disappointment with the country's politicians, as the fallacies inherent in pledges made during the campaigns preceding the referendum become increasingly obvious, according to Wittmann's thesis.
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Until 1870, the state allowed for residents to be counted only as white, black free or black slave, causing many Ramapoughs to be misclassified — a gap in genealogy that was filled with fallacies and folk tales by the surrounding white population.
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Hearings like this one crop up every now and then, often with the same cadre of questionably-credentialed witnesses offering up the same tired fallacies that serve to cast doubt on the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is real and human-caused.
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"We have to look beyond the glowing reports of a new South," he told the House Judiciary Committee during a 1971 hearing: We have to recognize the fallacies of those who would tell us that Federal registrars and observers are no longer needed.
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We still don't know the full details of Mr. Trump's approach to the Middle East, but his hard-nosed ethos and willingness to question foreign policy dogmas offer an opportunity, in principle, to dispel several fallacies that led to these strategic blunders.
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One EC reader wrote in their recommendation: One of the biggest org fallacies of fast-growing startups is promoting great ICs into first-time management roles and expecting they'll quickly turn into great people managers with little training, mentorship, or role-models.
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In this well-researched essay, the scholar Bruce Jacobs (no relation to me) explains how the idea of "one China" was created by selective readings of history and by the outright fallacies propagated by the Communist Party, abetted by Taiwan's Nationalist party, the Kuomintang.
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And that's what this dean and the anti-trigger-warnings, no-safe-spaces crowd are counting on — that the surface veneer of reasonableness in these admonitions to the class of 2020 will obscure the rotten pedagogy and logical fallacies that infest this entire screed.
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That's because he sees the Trump administration's first 100 days as a great way to dispel three persistent fallacies about American politics: The idea that politics is easy; the superiority of the political outsider; and the notion that government should be run as a business.
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"Sandy Hook happened now nearly seven years ago, and so during that entire time the clients were subject to hostile postings on YouTube that disseminated this false narrative and caused undue harassment, threats, and fallacies as they were trying to heal," said the attorney, Josh Koskoff.
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"The report had several methodological fallacies and misconstrued the facts of the conflict... ignoring the true reasons for the conflict which are the coup of the Iran-backed Houthi militias against the legitimate government in Yemen," said a statement published by the Saudi state news agency SPA.
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It argues that people who believe guns make America safer, among other fallacies, display a strain of superstition that has always existed in American politics, on the right and the left, but which in recent decades has concentrated on the right, and now threatens to subsume it.
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He accuses Barr of "deliberately misrepresenting" the full report in the four-page summary he sent to Congress, using "sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies which he hopes people will not notice" to make the report seem more favorable to Trump than it actually is.
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This one, called "Soft Power," written by Chinese artists instead of Americans, is both a rueful romance like "Stick With Your Mistake" and a gleeful riposte to Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I," inverting that Golden Age classic's fallacies and stereotypes to hilarious and pungent effect.
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If you would like to improve your own lie detection, a good first step is to learn the common logical fallacies -- red herrings, appeals to ignorance, straw men and "ad populum" appeals to the bandwagon -- that purveyors of misinformation may use to create the illusion of truth.
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It's been clear for some time that the FCC's narrative on the alleged cyberattack is full of holes and outright fallacies; the agency has refused to release unredacted emails about the 2017 incident, meaning just what key personnel like Pai knew and when is being hidden from the public.
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Leading up to the epic release of Avengers: Endgame, plenty of folks (yours truly included) were worried that the inevitable addition of time travel to the MCU would undermine the series' fundamental structure and leave our favorite heroes in a pile of mind-numbing paradoxes, fallacies, and plot holes.
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Nonvoters were a lot likelier to say they didn't follow political news closely: And they were likelier to grow up in households that didn't follow political news closely: One of the easiest and most common fallacies in politics is to imagine that one's own political reactions are generalizable.
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Hopefully, future installments will move beyond confidence building techniques and into lessons that combat some of the fallacies (or at least fantasies) perpetuated by a good deal of porn, reminding users that good sex is as much about connecting with your partner as it is about connecting with your dick.
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And she maintained this grace despite knowing what would greet her when she went onstage, knowing that she would be interrupted; that her carefully thought out policies would be countered with logical fallacies; that regardless of the content of her responses, he who spoke loudest would be deemed the winner of the evening.
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"Sandy Hook happened now nearly seven years ago, and so during that entire time the clients were subject to hostile postings on YouTube that disseminated this false narrative and caused undue harassment, threats, and fallacies as they were trying to heal," the attorney, Josh Koskoff, told CNN Business in a phone interview.
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Rachel got in the best Twitter fights — which she did often — because they were almost always pointing out logical fallacies or real harm committed by supposedly respectable theologians or annoying Christian men online, who felt free to opine on subjects, like gay marriage and abortion, that they had no real personal experience with.
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His trade views are disdainful of freedom and informed by economic fallacies, yet Republican leaders have watched quietly from the sidelines as Mr. Trump misappropriates his authorities to disrupt global supply chains, inflict pain on American trade partners, generate enormous amounts of domestic collateral damage and make the United States an international scofflaw.
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On Wednesday, Trump repeated several of his greatest-hits fallacies, such as asserting that fifty-two per cent of women supported him in 2016 (that number was forty-two per cent), and that numerous new steel-manufacturing plants are being opened (none are), and that "clean, beautiful coal" is coming back (it isn't).
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But those overtures point up a disquieting fear about his bid to defeat Trump: He may well perpetuate the fallacies of elite comity that marked his early career—and that continue to animate Democratic strategies to win back voters who are not as yet scandalized by the racist and misogynist rabble-rousing that is Trumpism.
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McArdle's column serves as a useful target for analysis because it brings together in one place a lot of common fallacies about Roe, ones that will definitely be used in the coming months by opponents of legal abortion in order to minimize the effects of overruling a decision that roughly 70 percent of the public believes should be upheld.
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He pointed out logical fallacies in their beliefs, including the technical impossibility of chip implants capable of tracking an individual: A GPS microchip would have the same energy demands and battery problems as a smartphone, and while researchers are experimenting with implants that might help treat neurodegenerative diseases or link prosthetics to neural pathways, even the most advanced technology can't make someone hear voices or experience a different reality.
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"No one will assume responsibility for such a big lie once it is known that the claim had been fraudulent," he said in a statement, according to state media outlet Press TV."It is unfortunate that the psychological operation of the US government, and those supporting it knowingly and unknowingly, are adding insult to the injury of the bereaved families and victimizing them for certain goals by propagating such fallacies," he said.
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The Kavanaugh confirmation process has brought to the surface the many fallacies that our culture repeats about rape and other sexual misconduct: that committing sexual violence is normal male behavior (boys will be boys, after all); that real victims come forward right away (and anyone who waits must be a liar); that depriving someone of a powerful position is the same as locking him in prison (or even killing him); that it takes the word of multiple women (at least more than one, and probably more than two) to equal the worth of a man's word; that unless an act of sexual misconduct is as bad as those allegedly committed by Harvey Weinstein, it doesn't count (and no one can tell the difference anymore); and that the country owes accused men a path to redemption (even if they haven't acknowledged what they did wrong).
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