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fallacy

[fal-uh-see] / ˈfæl ə si /


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"This is the sunk cost fallacy," he said, adding that "it keeps the addictive behaviour loop".

From Barron's May 31, 2026

Loss aversion, sunk-cost fallacy and herd behavior — all of it kicks in during a drawdown.

From MarketWatch May 12, 2026

Stan Veuger, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said the administration’s position relies on what’s known as the lump-of-labor fallacy.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

"I think the thing young founders get wrong is they view hours worked in and of itself as necessary and sufficient to think of themselves as productive. And that's where the fallacy lies", he explains.

From BBC Feb. 8, 2026

The misconception is so common that it has been given a name: the etymological fallacy.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

I’m not alleging that Mr. Pelley deploys these fallacies consciously and with self-awareness.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

“One of the fallacies is that this is only targeting Latinos. If you look at the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Chinese, even Japanese communities, they’re being picked up right in court.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2025

Here are four of his essay’s more obvious fallacies.

From Salon Oct. 31, 2024

So placing that art outside time, or concocting fallacies about its artist’s intentions, has the potential to skew our perception of the art moving forward.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2024

“It’s one of the great fallacies, it seems to me,” said Lee, “that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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