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Fallacy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A false notion.

n. A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference.

n. Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness.

n. The quality of being deceptive.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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 specious argument.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Deceptiveness; deception; deceit; deceitfulness; that which is erroneous, false, or deceptive; that which misleads; mistake.

n. Specifically— A false syllogism; an invalid argumentation; a proposed reasoning which, professing to deduce a necessary conclusion, reaches one which may be false though the premises are true, or which, professing to be probable, infers something that is really not probable, or wants the kind of probability assigned to it.

n. The fallacy of accident, arising when a syllogism is made to conclude that, because a given predicate may be truly affirmed of a given subject, the same predicate may be truly affirmed respecting all the accidents of that subject.

n. The fallacy of speech respective and speech absolute, occurring when a proposition is affirmed with a qualification or limitation in the premises, but virtually without the qualification in the conclusion.

n. The fallacy of irrelevant conclusion, or ignoration of the elench, occurring when the disputant, professing to contradict the thesis, advances another proposition which contradicts it in appearance but not in reality.

n. The fallacy of the consequent, or non sequitur, an argument from consequent to antecedent, which may really be a good probable argument.

n. Begging the question, or the petitio principii, a syllogism, valid in itself, but in which that is affirmed as a premise which no man who doubts the conclusion would admit.

n. The fallacy of false cause, arising when, in making a reductio ad absurdum, besides the proposition to be refuted, some other false premise is introduced.

n. The fallacy of many interrogations in which two or more questions are so proposed that they appear to be but one: as, “Have you lost your horns?” a question which implies that you had horns.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

Word Usage

"The worst of the fallacy is the assumption that “worth” means only economic value, without any other factor interfering, and, as you note, that “worth” based on economic value in the current cultural environment somehow trumps any other consideration."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

misconception

Cross Reference

fallacy of no middle fallacy of undistributed middle fallacy of homonymy semilogical fallacy fallacy of figure of speech

Hyponym

pathetic fallacy pseudoscience sophistry logical fallacy sophism

Form

informal fallacy logical fallacy formal fallacy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

deception mistake deceit deceitfulness sophism

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

absurdity misconception inconsistency delusion paradox