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fallacy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | false belief |
| Type of | misconception |
| Has types | paralogism, pathetic fallacy, pseudoscience, sophism, sophistication, logical fallacy, sophistry |
| Derivation | fallacious |
Examples of fallacy
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A second fallacy is that all financial instruments have the same economic value.
From the washingtonpost.com
Ms. Pipes punctures another common fallacy, that prevention programs save money.
From the washingtontimes.com
To start with it is a fallacy that to be prosperous you need to be a powerhouse.
From the economist.com
Any such attempted proof is a transparent fallacy that insults our intelligence.
From the economist.com
On the inappropriate use of the naturalistic fallacy in evolutionary psychology.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Classic example of the fallacy of offsetting by cancelling high-carbon projects.
From the guardian.co.uk
I'm glad at least one other person notice the fallacy in the theory put forward.
From the economist.com
And if it did, that is not POV, rather a simplification to the point of fallacy.
From the en.wikipedia.org
His essay is sometimes regarded as an example of the fallacy of hypostatization.
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- A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
- (fallacious) containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument"
- (fallacious) deceitful: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
- (fallacious) based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"
- Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception; An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not. A specious argument
- (fallacious) Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken; Deceptive or misleading
- A mistake in reasoning; an argument that fails to provide adequate logical support for the truth of its conclusion, yet appears convincing or persuasive in some other way. ...
- A fallacy is an argument which seems to be correct but which contains at least one error and, as a consequence, produces a final staternent which is clearly wrong. Though it is clear that the result is wrong, the error in the argument is usually (and ought to be) difficult to find.
- 1. In philosophy, a fallacy is a logical breach or fault in an argument. A logical or formal fallacy is an invalid argument in which the premises do not deductively imply the conclusion. 2. More broadly, a belief which, although it may be widespread in the community, happens to be wrong. ...
