31. Linguists' most dangerous myth: The fallacy of Creole Exceptionalism
    2005/08/17 by Michel DeGraff, MICHEL DEGRAFF · 1 citation
    Social Sciences · #Canadian Identity and History #Creole language #Epistemology #Exceptionalism #Fallacy #Law #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Multilingual Education and Policy #Mythology #Philosophy #Political science #Politics #Sociology #Theology
32. The hot hand fallacy and the gambler’s fallacy: Two faces of subjective randomness?
    2004/12/01 by Peter Ayton, Ilan Fischer · 4 citations
    Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · Psychology · #Cognitive psychology #Epistemology #Fallacy #Gambling Behavior and Treatments #Mathematics #Philosophy #Psychology #Randomness #Social psychology #Sports Analytics and Performance #Statistics #Statistics Education and Methodologies
33. The Poietic Fallacy
    2004/01/01 by Richard Taruskin · 1 citation
    Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Epistemology #Fallacy #Philosophical Ethics and Theory #Philosophy #Philosophy and Theoretical Science #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
34. Demarcation and the Scientistic Fallacy
    2003/12/02 by Gregory R. Peterson · 1 citation
    Arts and Humanities · #Theology and Philosophy of Evil #Evolution and Science Education #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Scientism #Fallacy #Epistemology #Philosophy #Mistake #Law #Political science
35. Skin Color and Intelligence in African Americans: A Reply to Hill
    2002/11/01 by Richard Lynn · 2 citations
    Medicine · Psychology · #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Demography #Epistemology #Fallacy #Gerontology #Medicine #Philosophy #Psychology #Public health #Social psychology #Sociology
36. Public Sources of the Personal Mind
    2002/10/01 by Rom Harré · 2 citations
    Psychology · Social Sciences · #Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology #Social Representations and Identity #Critical Realism in Sociology #Epistemology #Social constructionism #Sociology #Constructionism #Action (physics) #Social reality #Fallacy #Postmodernism #Social psychology #Psychology #Philosophy
37. Fate, Action, and Motivation: The Idle Argument
    2001/11/22 by Susanne Bobzien · 1 citation
    Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Classical Philosophy and Thought #Classical Antiquity Studies #Argument (complex analysis) #Determinism #Fatalism #Epistemology #Action (physics) #Fallacy #Philosophy #Reading (process) #Omniscience #Free will #Linguistics
38. The base-rate fallacy and the difficulty of intrusion detection
    2000/08/01 by Stefan Axelsson · 3 citations
    Computer Science · Engineering · #Network Security and Intrusion Detection #Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Intrusion detection system #Computer science #False alarm #Constant false alarm rate #ALARM #Fallacy #False positive rate #Set (abstract data type) #Intrusion #Data mining #Computer security #Artificial intelligence #Engineering
39. The Moralistic Fallacy: On the 'Appropriateness' of Emotions
    2000/07/01 by Justin D'Arms, Justin D’Arms, Daniel Jacobson · 39 citations
    Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Analytic philosophy #Contemporary philosophy #Emotions and Moral Behavior #Epistemology #Fallacy #Philosophical Ethics and Theory #Philosophy #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
40. A refutation of Penrose's Gödelian case against artificial intelligence
    2000/07/01 by Selmer Bringsjord, Hong Xiao · 1 citation
    Psychology · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · Medicine · #Philosophy and Theoretical Science #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Fallacy #Philosophy #Equivocation #Argument (complex analysis) #Psyche #Computer science #Epistemology #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Medicine
41. Aggregation and Ecological Effects in Geographically Based Data
    1996/07/01 by Daniel T. Holt, D. Holt, David Steel +5 · 3 citations
    Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Biology #Census #Computer science #Data aggregator #Demography #Ecology #Econometrics #Economic and Environmental Valuation #Fallacy #Geography #Mathematics #Population #Sociology #Spatial and Panel Data Analysis #Statistics #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
42. The base rate fallacy reconsidered: Descriptive, normative, and methodological challenges
    1996/03/01 by Jonathan J. Koehler · 6 citations
    Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Psychology · Mathematics · #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Economic and Environmental Valuation #Forecasting Techniques and Applications #Normative #Bayes' theorem #Frequentist inference #Base (topology) #Fallacy #Computer science #Task (project management) #Probabilistic logic #Knowledge base #Bayesian probability #Ranking (information retrieval) #Statistical inference #Psychology #Mathematical economics #Epistemology #Bayesian inference #Artificial intelligence #Statistics #Mathematics #Economics
43. On a confusion about a function of consciousness
    1995/06/01 by Ned Block · 50 citations
    Neuroscience · Psychology · #Action (physics) #Action Observation and Synchronization #Blindsight #Cognitive psychology #Cognitive science #Confusion #Consciousness #EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces #Epistemology #Fallacy #Function (biology) #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Neuroscience #Perception #Phenomenon #Philosophy #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Qualia #Unconscious mind #Unconsciousness #Visual perception
44. Exaptation: A Crucial Tool for an Evolutionary Psychology
    1991/10/01 by Stephen Jay Gould · 4 citations
    Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Neuroscience · #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Philosophy and History of Science #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Exaptation #Conflation #Evolutionary psychology #Sociobiology #Cognitive science #Darwinism #Fallacy #Context (archaeology) #Epistemology #Contingency #Adaptation (eye) #Evolvability #Meaning (existential) #Pejorative #Flexibility (engineering) #Function (biology) #Evolutionary theory #Psychology #Evolutionary biology #Biology #Philosophy #Neuroscience
45. Hinduism and the ‘World Religion’ fallacy
    1990/04/01 by Timothy Fitzgerald · 3 citations
    Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Indian and Buddhist Studies #Religion and Society Interactions #Hinduism #Fallacy #Religious studies #Philosophy #Sociology #Epistemology
46. Anomalies: Saving, Fungibility, and Mental Accounts
    1990/02/01 by Richard H. Thaler · 4 citations
    Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis #Housing Market and Economics #Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management #Fungibility #Elegance #Victory #Economics #Life-cycle hypothesis #Mental accounting #Consumption (sociology) #Fallacy #Positive economics #Keynesian economics #Mathematical economics #Microeconomics #Politics #Sociology #Epistemology #Philosophy #Macroeconomics #Political science #Law #Social science
47. The dependence of the conjunction fallacy on subtle linguistic factors
    1988/09/01 by Klaus Fiedler · 6 citations
    Psychology · Social Sciences · #Categorization, perception, and language #Cognitive psychology #Conjunction (astronomy) #Event (particle physics) #Fallacy #Language and cultural evolution #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Linguistics #Logical conjunction #Philosophy #Priming (agriculture) #Psychology #Social psychology #Task (project management) #Term (time)
48. The base-rate fallacy in probability judgments
    1980/05/01 by Maya Bar‐Hillel, Maya Bar-Hillel · 61 citations
    Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Artificial intelligence #Attribution #Base (topology) #Causal inference #Causality (physics) #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Demography #Econometrics #Epistemology #Fallacy #Inference #Jury Decision Making Processes #Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems #Mathematics #Phenomenon #Political science #Population #Psychology #Relevance (law) #Set (abstract data type) #Social psychology #Sociology
49. Do savannah sparrows commit the concorde fallacy?
    1979/01/01 by Patrick J. Weatherhead · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior #Animal ecology #Avian ecology and behavior #Biology #Commit #Computer science #Ecology #Epistemology #Fallacy #Zoology
50. The Fallacy of Biological Determinism
    1976/03/04 by R.C. Lewontin, Richard C Lewontin · 1 citation
    Arts and Humanities · #Biological sciences #Biology #Citation #Computer science #Demography #Epistemology #Fallacy #Geneticist #Genetics #Library science #Philosophy #Philosophy and History of Science #Population #Sociology
51. The fallacy of the null-hypothesis significance test.
    1960/09/01 by William W. Rozeboom · 5 citations
    Mathematics · Psychology · #Statistics Education and Methodologies #Probability and Statistical Research #Fallacy #Null hypothesis #Statistical hypothesis testing #Psychology #Alternative hypothesis #Statistical significance #Null (SQL) #Test (biology) #Null distribution #Statistics #Mathematics #Test statistic #Philosophy #Computer science #Epistemology #Biology #Data mining
52. The fallacy of personal validation: a classroom demonstration of gullibility.
    1949/01/01 by Bertram R. Forer · 2 citations
    Engineering · Psychology · #Applied psychology #Epistemology #Fallacy #Philosophy #Psychological Testing and Assessment #Psychology #Social psychology #Spatial Cognition and Navigation
53. IV.—THE NATURALISTIC FALLACY
    1939/01/01 by William K. Frankena · 3 citations
    Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Epistemology #Fallacy #French Literature and Criticism #Historical and Literary Studies #Naturalism #Philosophy #Psychology

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