Literary notes about Fallacious (AI summary)
In literature, the term “fallacious” is often employed to describe reasoning, hopes, or principles that are misleading or logically unsound. Authors use it to criticize ungrounded assumptions in fields as diverse as education and politics—for instance, critiquing the biological underpinnings of theories in educational philosophy [1, 2] or disparaging political arrangements based on invalid analogies [3, 4]. At times it characterizes the misdirected optimism of characters, as seen when a character’s hope is deemed fallacious in its promise [5, 6, 7], or it is used in a broader philosophical context to condemn entire systems of thought and argumentation [8, 9]. Such usage across various genres highlights literature’s enduring interest in exposing and dissecting errors in reasoning and unrealistic aspirations.
- In the first place, its biological basis is fallacious.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - The notion that a pupil operating with such material will somehow absorb the intelligence that went originally to its shaping is fallacious.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - Such were the consequences of the fallacious principle on which this interesting establishment was founded.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - Nothing can be more fallacious than to found our political calculations on arithmetical principles.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - This passing, I returned to duty, buoyed up by the fallacious hope that the winter months would set me right again.
— from Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Again I threw myself on the sands, and then the sighing wind, mimicking a human cry, roused me to bitter, fallacious hope.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - ‘Madam,’ returned Mr. Micawber, ‘it was the dream of my youth, and the fallacious aspiration of my riper years.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - The objection is fallacious, because based upon the assumption that likeness in mode of action involves entire similarity.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse Henry Jones - It is not the deduction but the premise which is fallacious.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
