Fallacious
[fə'leɪʃəs] or [fə'leʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; 'fallacious hope' .
(adj.) containing or based on a fallacy; 'fallacious reasoning'; 'an unsound argument' .
Typist: Louis--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Deceptive, delusive, deceiving, illusive, illusory, misleading, disappointing, false.
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Examples
- We have turned our attention to that experiment, on the suggestion of my family, and we find it fallacious. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This was small consolation, but Miss Mills wouldn't encourage fallacious hopes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Does he not on the contrary feel a freedom of will within him, which, though you may call it fallacious, still actuates him as he decides? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Still, through this fallacious medium, a real enlargement of ideas is attained. Plato. The Republic.
- No wonder a principle so inconstant and fallacious should lead us into errors, when implicitly followed (as it must be) in all its variations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Should these speculations be found doubtful or fallacious, there still remains a more humble source of comfort and hope. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Again I threw myself on the sands, and then the sighing wind, mimicking a human cry, roused me to bitter, fallacious hope. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The notion that a pupil operating with such material will somehow absorb the intelligence that went originally to its shaping is fallacious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Such comparisons, however, between the profit and expense of new projects are commonly very fallacious; and in nothing more so than in agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the first place, its biological basis is fallacious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Terrance