common fallacy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcommonandfallacy
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common
adjective
uk/ˈkɒm.ən/us/ˈkɑː.mən/
the same in a lot of places or for a lot ...
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fallacy
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæl.ə.si/us/ˈfæl.ə.si/
an idea that a lot of people think is true but is in ...
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(Definition ofcommonandfallacyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is acommonfallacythat the teachers are a body of very much overpaid men and women, who have easy lives and long holidays.
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That is acommonfallacyto which we are all occasionally subject.
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Thecommonfallacypersists that the unemployed have had their cuts restored.
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This is acommonfallacywhich has never been answered satisfactorily.
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The othercommonfallacyis that one has only to call spending "investment" in order to make it profitable.
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It is acommonfallacyto say that raw data—or whatever one cares to call them—have objectivity and are non-controversial.
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This is acommonfallacy.
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That is acommonfallacy.
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It is acommonfallacyin business that one's own business is very special and that nobody else understands it and, therefore, we must reorganise it ourselves.
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It is acommonfallacyin political argument to state difficulties which are real but are small when put into the balance against the difficulties on the other side.
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Acommonfallacy, for example among electrical engineers regarding structure power systems, is that safety issues can be readily deduced.
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However, acommonfallacyis that green materials are always better for the health of occupants or the environment.
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However, this appeal to tradition is acommonfallacy.
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In this context, he has pointed out acommonfallacyamong programmers today: that storing computed values in memory is preferable to recomputing those values later.
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