fallacy

This fallacy is perhaps best understood in the context of flipping a coin.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

“This crisis is not a fallacy nor a thinly veiled threat.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 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

As mentioned in Chapter 2, however, it should be carefully distinguished from the gambler’s fallacy, to which it bears a superficial resemblance.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Following along as he picks data fallacies apart is a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to read the whole book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

I place that term in quotation marks since, as many people have said and continue to say, the version of “debate” that Kirk popularized is a wrestling match in a mud pit of logical fallacies.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2025

“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

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 can conceal a dozen fallacies at once.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin