Fallacy
['fæləsɪ] or ['fæləsi]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Illusion, deception, deceit, delusion, mistake, error, misconception, misapprehension.[2]. Sophism, sophistry, deceitful argument.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sophistry, error, blunder, misconception, bugbear, fiction, delusion, chimera
ANT:Truth, verity, fact, logic, argument, soundness, proof, postulate, axiom
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- Unfortunately, the suggestion is not practical; a fallacy is concealed in it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Later I found the fallacy of this belief. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They are all of them founded on the same fallacy, and are derived from the same turn of thought. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The following very short and plain argument, however, may serve to explain more distinctly the fallacy which seems to have misled those gentlemen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Speaking generally, the fundamental fallacy in methods of instruction lies in supposing that experience on the part of pupils may be assumed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The fallacy of assuming that the fact it is an inheritance, predetermines its future use, is obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Can you suggest any fallacy? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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