Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are ...
The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fallacy that had somehow landed existentialism in a cul de sac.
Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose. The claim is that the new paradigm can actually influence — legitimately — our choice of basic values in the first pl...
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
I don't want anything bad to happen to me.
I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.
Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.
There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.
The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.
I can't pretend to be objective when it comes to service or sacrifice.
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.
Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
What we consider too good to be true, is truth; all else is fallacy
The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic.
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
