Two Dollar Fallacies

The BRICS Fallacy

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Bentham s Fallacies, Then and Now

Four Fallacies of the Second Great Depression

What is falsehood, Reverend Father? And what is truth?

LONDON The period since 2008 has produced a plentiful crop of recycled economic fallacies, mostly falling from the lips of political leaders. Here are my four favorites.

The wisdom of our ancestors fallacy has often been invoked in debates over same sex marriage. Anyone familiar with political discussion in the United States will instantly recognize a more specific version that could be called the wisdom of the Founding Fathers fallacy.

The fallacies that really challenge the modern reader, however, are those that characterize arguments that today are widely accepted even in the most educated and enlightened circles. One of these, Bentham says, in a jarring juxtaposition, may be termed Anarchy preacher s fallacy or The Rights of Man fallacy.

It is important to evaluate the magnitude of this potential and to dispel fallacies surrounding it.

Every Christian's conscience should tell him the difference between black and white

The way you figured.

83. He hoped that in future the Special Rapporteur would desist from such biased and fallacious reporting.

Economics is luxuriant with fallacies, because it is not a natural science like physics or chemistry. Propositions in economics are rarely absolutely true or false.

By 1811, he had sorted them into nearly 50 different types, with titles like Attack us, you attack Government, the No precedent argument, and the Good in theory, bad in practice fallacy. (One thing on which both Immanuel Kant and Bentham agree is that this last example is a fallacy If something is bad in practice, there must be a flaw in the theory.)

The use of nuclear energy for military ends can only bring horror and death and is therefore an aberration which, regrettably, mankind devised.

Nonsense.

Preposterous.

Oh, nonsense.

Ridiculous.

The fallacy, exemplified in a recent commentary by Philip Stephens of the Financial Times, is that, Athens is unable or unwilling or both to implement an economic reform program. Once this fallacy is presented as fact, it is only natural that coverage highlights how our government is, in Stephens s words, squandering the trust and goodwill of its eurozone partners.

That's preposterous!

That's absurd.

Don't be ridiculous.

That's ridiculous.

Ridiculous.

Right to the funny bone.

Ridiculous.

Drink! Preposterous!

What a stupid idea.

This is ridiculous.

That's ridiculous, Sherman.

That's preposterous.

That is not correct.

That's ridiculous.

This is ridiculous.

That's ridiculous.

Isn't that ridiculous?

Ridiculous, isn't it?

We must have looked ridiculous.

The complainant did not pursue judicial review of the first RRT decision which he now impugns as both biased and flawed owing to a misapplication of the law.

More jobs? By jobs, he meant government spending, and he considered this a fallacy because blanket opposition to more government spending fails to take into account the good that the extra employees will be able to achieve.

And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.

Public support for independence in Scotland and Catalonia shows that this is not always the case. Bentham, of course, would have accepted that he might be mistaken.

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