| 词汇 | fallacy |
| 释义 | fallacy noun[ C ] formaluk /ˈfæl.ə.si/ us /ˈfæl.ə.si/ an idea that a lot of people think is true but is in fact false: 谬见，谬论 [ + that ]It is a common fallacy that women are worse drivers than men.女性开车不如男性开得好，这是人们常有的谬见。 Unreal things and unreality alternate reality alternative reality birther cloud cuckoo land delusion fairyland false hopes falsity fantasy fictionalization la-la land make believephrase never-never land non-fact non-factual phantom pie pie in the skyidiom unreality untruth fallacy | American Dictionaryfallacy noun[ C ] us/ˈfæl·ə·si/ a false belief: [ + that clause ]It is a common fallacy that only men are good at math. fallaciousadjective[ not gradable ]us/fəˈleɪ·ʃəs/ a fallacious argument Examples of fallacyfallacy The themes are: first, critical assessment must start from subjects' understanding; second, a modal fallacy; and third, fallacies of distribution. The fallacy of natural science is that it proceeds as if uninterpreted material phenomena were primary, and had interpretations added to them later. One should therefore not incur a fallacy of composition and draw the conclusion that weak labor institutions are favorable to technical change. This curious contradiction or confusion is a fallacy to which most linguists seem prone. The fallacy is: an obvious function of the machinery of access-consciousness is illicitly transferred to phenomenal consciousness. In contrast, our commitment to the naturalistic fallacy is considerably weaker. Protectionist fallacies had all been exposed, enlightenment was spreading, and landlords' resistance simply encouraged the build-up of more pressure for revenge. Most analyses of spatial variations have thus been ecological, with the potential for falling into various fallacies. The fallacy seems borne of a desire for harmony. Moreover, such results are mostly 'negative', revealing the fallacies of cultural explanations relying on easy generalisations about national culture. However, ecological studies have limitations, the 'ecological bias ' or 'ecological fallacy ' being the major one. I illustrate the paradox by a dozen apparent fallacies; each can be logically deduced from the environmental structure and an unbiased mind. This is a fallacy, especially regarding the collection of information about occupations. It also covers religious societies that are dedicated to advocating and spreading the creeds regarded by the rulers as fallacies threatening to their ideological hegemony. The fallacy of employing standardized regression coefficients and correlations as measures of effect. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withfallacyfallacyThese are words often used in combination with fallacy. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. common fallacy It is a common fallacy that the teachers are a body of very much overpaid men and women, who have easy lives and long holidays. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 ecological fallacy However, ecological studies have limitations, the 'ecological bias ' or 'ecological fallacy ' being the major one. informal fallacy A false accusation of question dodging can sometimes be made as a disingenuous tactic in debate, in the informal fallacy of the loaded question. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with fallacy |
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