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Fallacy
| Fallacy Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Fallacy?
[n] a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
Synonyms | Synonyms for Fallacy: false belief
Related Terms | Find terms related to Fallacy: aberrancy |
aberration |
Albigensianism |
antinomianism |
apparent soundness |
argument |
argument by analogy |
argumentum ad baculum |
argumentum ad captandum |
argumentum ad hominem |
Arianism |
bad case |
bamboozlement |
befooling |
begging the question |
bluffing |
calculated deception |
casuistry |
Catharism |
circular argument |
circularity |
circumvention |
claptrap |
conning |
crowd-pleasing argument |
deceiving |
deception |
deceptiveness |
defectiveness |
defrauding |
delusion |
delusiveness |
deviancy |
disingenuousness |
distortion |
dupery |
Ebionitism |
elusion |
emanatism |
empty words |
enmeshment |
ensnarement |
entanglement |
entrapment |
equivocalness |
equivocation |
Erastianism |
errancy |
erroneousness |
error |
evasion |
evasive reasoning |
fallaciousness |
false doctrine |
falsehood |
falseness |
falsity |
fault |
faultiness |
flaw |
flawedness |
flimflam |
flimflammery |
fond illusion |
fooling |
formal fallacy |
Gnosticism |
hallucination |
hamartia |
heresy |
heterodoxy |
hoodwinking |
hylotheism |
hysteron proteron |
illusion |
inconsistency |
insincere argument |
insincerity |
inveracity |
jesuitism |
jesuitry |
Jovinianism |
kidding |
logical fallacy |
Lollardy |
Manichaeanism |
Manichaeism |
material fallacy |
mere rhetoric |
mirage |
misapplication |
misbelief |
miscalculation |
misconception |
misconstruction |
misdoing |
misfeasance |
misinterpretation |
misjudgment |
mistake |
misunderstanding |
Monophysism |
Monophysitism |
moonshine |
mystification |
non sequitur |
obfuscation |
obscurantism |
outwitting |
overreaching |
oversubtlety |
pantheism |
paralogism |
peccancy |
Pelagianism |
perversion |
petitio principii |
phantasm |
philosophism |
plausibility |
plausibleness |
pseudosyllogism |
putting on |
quibble |
rationalization |
self-contradiction |
self-deception |
sin |
sinfulness |
snow job |
solecism |
song and dance |
sophism |
sophistical reasoning |
sophistication |
sophistry |
special pleading |
speciosity |
specious reasoning |
speciousness |
spoofery |
spoofing |
spuriousness |
subterfuge |
subtlety |
swindling |
trickiness |
tricking |
truthlessness |
unorthodoxy |
untrueness |
untruth |
untruthfulness |
verbal fallacy |
vicious circle |
vicious reasoning |
victimization |
vision |
Waldensianism |
weak point |
willful misconception |
wishful thinking |
wrong |
wrongness |
Wyclifism
See Also | logical fallacy |
misconception |
paralogism |
pathetic fallacy |
pseudoscience |
sophism |
sophistication |
sophistry
Fallacy In Webster's Dictionary
\Fal"la*cy\, n.; pl. {Fallacies}. [OE. fallace, fallas,
deception, F. fallace, fr. L. fallacia, fr. fallax deceitful,
deceptive, fr. fallere to deceive. See {Fail}.]
1. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which
misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
Winning by conquest what the first man lost, By
fallacy surprised. --Milton.
2. (Logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes
to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it
is not; a sophism.
Syn: Deception; deceit; mistake.
Usage: {Fallacy}, {Sophistry}. A fallacy is an argument which
professes to be decisive, but in reality is not;
sophistry is also false reasoning, but of so specious
and subtle a kind as to render it difficult to expose
its fallacy. Many fallacies are obvious, but the evil
of sophistry lies in its consummate art. ``Men are apt
to suffer their minds to be misled by fallacies which
gratify their passions. Many persons have obscured and
confounded the nature of things by their wretched
sophistry; though an act be never so sinful, they will
strip it of its guilt.'' --South.
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