Fallacy
['fæləsɪ] or ['fæləsi]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
(n.) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
校對:莱利亚
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Illusion, deception, deceit, delusion, mistake, error, misconception, misapprehension.[2]. Sophism, sophistry, deceitful argument.
編輯:齐克
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Sophistry, error, blunder, misconception, bugbear, fiction, delusion, chimera
ANT:Truth, verity, fact, logic, argument, soundness, proof, postulate, axiom
英格拉姆編輯
解釋/意思:
n. something fallacious: deceptive appearance: an apparently genuine but really illogical argument: (obs.) deception.—adj. Fallā′cious calculated to deceive or mislead: not well founded: causing disappointment: delusive.—adv. Fallā′ciously.—n. Fallā′ciousness.
卡斯特罗校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Unfortunately, the suggestion is not practical; a fallacy is concealed in it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It would be a fallacy to entertain such a thought, for the little stars out-number the big ones, and the twigs of the tree are far more numerous than its branches. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Later I found the fallacy of this belief. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They are all of them founded on the same fallacy, and are derived from the same turn of thought. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The following very short and plain argument, however, may serve to explain more distinctly the fallacy which seems to have misled those gentlemen. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Speaking generally, the fundamental fallacy in methods of instruction lies in supposing that experience on the part of pupils may be assumed. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The fallacy of assuming that the fact it is an inheritance, predetermines its future use, is obvious. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- As a means for obtaining motive power it is a fallacy to suppose that any more power can be obtained from its expansion than was originally required to make it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Can you suggest any fallacy? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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