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fallacy

noun
/ˈfæl.ə.si/CA/ˈfɛl.ə.si/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from fallācia — “deception, deceit”
  2. derived from fallace
  3. inherited from fallaci

Definitions

  1. Deceptive or false appearance

    Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.

    • I no longer believe in happiness, because I see the fallacy of my first belief; and the examination which that induced, has shewn me the fallacy of all. Shew me a heart without its hidden wound.

  2. An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue,…

    An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.

    • Baldridge also showed the "one molecule of blood," usually held to be the stimulus for attracting sharks, to be another common fallacy, since a molecule of blood does not exist.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fallacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA