fallacy
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From Middle English, from Old French fallace, from Latin fallacia (“deception, deceit”), from fallax (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallere (“to deceive”).
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fallacy (plural fallacies)
- Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
- (logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not. A specious argument.
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deceptive or false appearance
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false argument
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- fallacy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- fallacy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- fallacy at OneLook Dictionary Search
