Developing a New Spatial Unit for Macroscopic Safety Evaluation Based on Traffic Density Homogeneity by Chen Wang, Lin Liu, Chengcheng Xu

“…It was found that ecological fallacy and atomic fallacy could exist without considering traffic flow parameters at those planning-based levels. …”
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Architecture’s Awaking from Correlationist Slumber: On Transdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Specificity by Andrej Radman

“…Architectural research continues to suffer from this fallacy. Furthermore, to separate the ‘cultural’ from the ‘natural’ environment – as if there were a world of mental and a world of material products – is a fatal mistake. …”
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Another Life (1972), de Derek Walcott, ou les lettres du mal-voyant by Kerry-Jane Wallart

“…Although it reads as a major poetical text about painting, Another Life unrelentingly pores over such phenomena as disappearance, blindness, visual fallacy or optical distorsions. The paintings that are presented are either out of focus or else steeped in waxing shadows. …”
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US Foreign Policy on Transitional Justice and Democratization in Tunisia: Pacted Transition or Democracy Reduction? by Oussema Othmeni

“…The second school puts forward a Democracy Reduction Critique, arguing instead that US policymakers fell for the electoral democracy fallacy and fetishized the role of civil society. …”
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Elicitation and experimentation: implications for English sociolinguistics by Cameron Morin, Carmelo Alessandro Basile

“…Grieve points out a sociological propensity for some linguists to aim for experimentation as the optimal and superior empirical approach to studying language, while underestimating the value of observational approaches, an undesirable fallacy for the future of the field. In this paper, we build upon his remarks and discuss some of their implications for future studies in English sociolinguistics and dialectology, especially those focusing on grammatical variation with elicitation-based methodologies. …”
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The EU-Azerbaijan Relations in the Gas Transporting Sector by Maksym Aliiev

“…For decades European elites negotiated and signed contracts for energy supplies from the Russian Federation, which gave Russia the opportunity to restore and strengthen its military capacity, and as a result, to launch an unprovoked aggression against Ukraine. Realizing the fallacy of its own energy diplomacy, the EU began searching for new and intensified relations with existing energy suppliers. …”
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Branchinecta orientalis Sars, 1901 (Anostraca: Branchinectidae) in Onon-Torey lakes of the Trans-Baikal Territory by Petr V. Matafonov, Natalia M. Sukhikh

“…The authors substantiate the fallacy of previous indications of Artemia salina in the group of Torey lakes and the attribution of data on the abundance and functional indicators of this species for the 1980s.…”
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A new framework for Bible translation by T. Wilt

“…This paper focuses on the communication model developed for this project. Avoiding the fallacy of the conduit metaphor of communication, it explicitly refers to the goals of the participants in a communication situation and the organisational as well as sociocultural frames within which texts are produced and perceived. …”
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Writing case reports and series: Tricks, traps, and triumphs! by Abraham Edgar Gracia-Ramos

“…On the other hand, they have several shortcomings that limit their credibility such as the impossibility to generalize their findings, selection and recall bias, information preferences, overinterpretation (“anecdotal fallacy”), and the distraction of readers toward the unusual. …”
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The Quality of Ranking during Simulated Pairwise Judgments for Examined Approximation Procedures by Paul Thaddeus Kazibudzki

“…This paper suggests this opinion is a fallacy. Research results argue that a genuine, commonly applied approximation procedure for a pairwise comparison matrix may deteriorate the quality of priority ratios estimation. …”
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Growth Rates of  Morphometric Variables in Approximately Linear Sections Using Lines in R3 by Aquiles E. Darghan, Enrique Quevedo García, Sergio Esteban Gamboa Muñoz, Carlos Armando Rivera Moreno

“…The calculation of approximate rates in nonlinear models may be inappropriate due to aspects related to the phrase known as the “average fallacy.” In this research, different classification algorithms are applied to select the approximately linear phase present in various nonlinear models of variables or parameters used in the modeling of the growth of a crop. …”
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Thymus and activation-regulated chemokine (CCL17) as a clinical biomarker in atopic dermatitis: significance and limitations in the new treatment era by Yoko Kataoka

“…Since 2008, serum TARC levels have been commercially measured in Japan, and clinical experience has shown the usefulness of TARC. The fallacy that eczema is always visible often hinders successful treatment, when there is subclinical inflammation which is inferable from the TARC level. …”
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The Image of Great Britain in the Soviet Press in the Context of the Spanish Civil War (1936‒1939) by S. M. Lunev

“…The author concludes that the image of Great Britain created in the Soviet press was intended to convince the Soviet public opinion in the fallacy of the British policy. In the face of an impending global war, London was portrayed as an unreliable ally, prone to concessions to aggressors.…”
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Was Copernicus an Astrologer? by George Borski, Ivan Kolkov

“…In general, while the pro lines of reasoning are normally based upon insecure or even faulty inductive logic, their contra counterparts often suffer from ex silentio inferences or even ad ignorantiam fallacy. Two new, subtle arguments have been introduced instead. …”
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Remembering what did not happen: the role of hypnosis in memory recall and false memories formation by Donato Giuseppe Leo, Donato Giuseppe Leo, Davide Bruno, Riccardo Proietti, Riccardo Proietti

“…Particularly, the employment of hypnosis in autobiographical recall (hypnotic regression) has been accused of favoring the creation of false memories, leading to therapeutic fallacy. In this paper, we review the current literature on the mechanisms behind the creation of false memories and the role played by hypnosis in memory enhancement and false memory recall. …”
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Role of behavioral biases in the investment decisions of Pakistan Stock Exchange investors: Moderating role of investment experience by Saima Aziz, Shahid Mehmood, Muhammad Asif Khan, Anita Tangl

“…Regression findings show that Confirmation Bias, Gamblers Fallacy Bias, Negativity Bias, Bandwagon Effect Bias, Loss Aversion Bias, and Overconfidence Bias all have a substantial impact on Investment Decisions. …”
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Humpty Dumpty and High-Risk AI Systems: The Ratione Materiae Dimension of the Proposal for an EU Artificial Intelligence Act by Jérôme De Cooman

“…With a strong emphasis on high-risk AI systems, the Commission comes dangerously close to the pitfall this article humorously labels as the Humpty Dumpty fallacy, to pay tribute to the nineteenth century English author Lewis Carroll. …”
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Criteria for the admissibility of digital (electronic) evidence in criminal proceedings by V. V. Romaniuk, S. Ye. Ablamskyi

“…Otherwise, it leads to duplication and is a logical fallacy. It is suggested that the source of digital (electronic) evidence be considered a digital (electronic) object by means of which this evidentiary information was created, recorded or transmitted. …”
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On liability for stalking in the context of the Istanbul convention implementation by Dudorov O., Dudorova K.

“…In particular, the establishment of an open list of actions that can be considered as harassment deserves acceptance, because such approach is motivated by a positive desire to cover the variety of behavioral patterns typical for modern stalking and to prevent the possible laxity of the criminal law, for example, due to the development of digital technologies; 3) the fallacy of the approach is argued, according to which the objective aspect of prosecution as a component of a new criminal offense for Ukraine should be determined through an exhaustive list of specified actions. …”
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