7 Metaphors for fallacy

The underlying fallacy is always this: the assumption that the novel, like the story, aims at a single, concentrated impression.

She says: "An extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air.

Strike out the words printed in italics, and you not only improve the harmony, but free the sentence from a disturbing use of what Ruskin has named the "pathetic fallacy." There are times in which Nature may be assumed as in sympathy with our moods; and at such times the pathetic fallacy is a source of subtle effect.

FALLACIES of the senses are the darkness of truths, 152*.

That fallacy, natural as it may be, is a curse which weighs heavily on us.

Though, really, the fallacy which regards an addition of territory as an addition of wealth to the "owning" nation is a very much simpler matter than the fallacies lying behind gambling systems, which are bound up with the laws of chance and the law of averages and much else that philosophers will quarrel about till the end of time.

It involves, moreover, the critical fallacy of supposing that poetry is a sort of richly embroidered garment wherewith to clothe the nakedness of the underlying substance.

7 Metaphors for  fallacy