fallacy
121Lump Of Labor Fallacy — The assumption that the quantity of labor required in an overall economy is fixed. This assumption in often regarded as fallacious, as the consensus view amongst economists today is that the quantity of labor demanded varies with respect to many… …
122gambler's fallacy — Also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy. Either (i) the mistake of supposing that results on a system such as a roulette table will continue to display some pattern they have recently been showing (e.g. reds are ‘hot’), or (ii) the converse mistake …
123pathetic fallacy — Projecting or displacing human emotions and feelings onto things that do not have them, although they may prompt emotions in us. We are supposed to commit the fallacy by talking of angry weather and sad trees. But the descriptions may be apt with …
124quantifier shift fallacy — A fallacy of reversing the order of two quantifiers . The common form is that of moving from a statement of the form ‘every x has a related y ’ to one of the form ‘there is some y related to every x ’. An easily detected instance would be… …
125Concorde fallacy — UK US noun [S] ECONOMICS, MANAGEMENT ► the idea that you should continue to spend money on a project, product, etc. in order not to waste the money or effort you have already put into it, which may lead to bad decisions: »The Concorde fallacy… …
126logical fallacy — noun a fallacy in logical argumentation • Hypernyms: ↑fallacy, ↑false belief • Hyponyms: ↑hysteron proteron, ↑ignoratio elenchi, ↑petitio principii, ↑petitio, ↑post hoc, ↑ …
127non|for|mal fallacy — «non FR muhl», Logic. a type of fallacy that rests on false comparisons, wrong observations, and ambiguous terms …
128Devolution (biological fallacy) — In common parlance, devolution , or backward evolution is the notion a species may evolve into more primitive forms. From a scientific perspective, devolution does not exist. [Michael J. Dougherty. [http://www.sciam.com/askexpert… …
