English Explanatory Dictionary

fallacy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
  2. An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.

Pronunciation

/ˈfæl.ə.si/ en-us-fallacy.ogg /ˈfɛl.ə.si/

Word forms

fallacy fallacies

Etymology

From Middle English fallaci, fallace, fallas, from Old French fallace, from Latin fallācia (“deception, deceit”), from fallāx (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallere (“to deceive”).

Synonyms

deception deceitfulness logical fallacy incorrect argument misargument non-argument pseudoargument

Related words

fail fallible sophism

Derived words

apex fallacy association fallacy bandwagon fallacy base rate fallacy black swan fallacy conceptual fallacy conjunction fallacy counterfallacy ethnocentric fallacy etymological fallacy fallacious fallacy fallacy fallacy of composition formal fallacy Galileo fallacy gambler's fallacy genetic fallacy glazier's fallacy Goomba fallacy informal fallacy intensional fallacy intentional fallacy just-world fallacy logical fallacy ludic fallacy masked-man fallacy masked man fallacy Monte Carlo fallacy naturalistic fallacy nirvana fallacy no true Scotsman fallacy pathetic fallacy phallusy sunk costs fallacy Texas sharpshooter fallacy toupee fallacy toupée fallacy
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