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They did so, in fact, only hours after the fallacy that the election was stolen had boiled over into a violent assault on the Capitol, one that left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.
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How to avoid logical fallacies and critical-thinking fallacies.
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It’s a planning fallacy based on screwy positive self-perception.
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That wrong-headed mental blind spot, the planning fallacy, results in us not preparing sufficiently for contingencies and problems.
IT MAY SOUND FAR-FETCHED, BUT BUSINESSES NEED TO BE READY FOR AN ELECTION-RELATED DISASTERJAKEMETHOCTOBER 29, 2020FORTUNE
As much as marketers would like to control the narrative around their brands doing so is a fallacy.
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A fallacy because — well, countries differ from each other on many dimensions, not just three or four.
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The night wanderer’s sense of belonging, of deep investment, is not a fallacy, but stands at the center of a realistic experience of what is actually meant by aliveness.
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The big fallacy is that it assumes that everyone in the economy is dealing from the same deck of cards.
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An underlying fallacy of Socialism is the concept that poverty or at least extreme poverty, can be banished from the world.
THE INHUMANITY OF SOCIALISMEDWARD F. ADAMS
I remark only the fallacy of reasoning from a wide average, to cases necessarily differing greatly from any average.
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