Illustrated London News (19 April 1930)
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 27
“Where slavery exists, the republican theory becomes still more fallacious.”
Vices of the Political System of the United States http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a4_4s2.html (April 1787), Papers 9:350-51
1780s
“How many generations need to comply in a fallacy before it becomes accepted as truth?”
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: The BL 755 cluster bomb (p. 652)
Source: Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969), P. 141.
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
“Hell is a fallacy, and heaven is a fantasy created by man.”
The World Is (Below the Heavens)
Below the Heavens (2007)
Source: Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966), p. 112
Context: It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.
Speech to Junior Carlton Club Political Council (4 May 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103017
Leader of the Opposition
“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”
