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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.

Fallacy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fallacy?

[n] a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fallacy: false belief

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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