fallacy

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Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French fallace, from Latin fallacia (“deception, deceit”), from fallax (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallere (“to deceive”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfæləsi/

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Noun

fallacy (plural fallacies)

1. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
2. (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.

Derived terms

• logical fallacy
• formal fallacy
• informal fallacy

Related terms

• fail
• fallacious
• fallibilist
• fallibilism
• fallibility
• fallible

Translations

deceptive or false appearance

• Bulgarian: заблуда (bg) f (zabluda)
• Czech: klam m
• Dutch: drogreden (nl)
• French: tromperie (fr) f
• German: Täuschung (de) f
• Greek: πλάνη (el) f (pláni)
• Hungarian: megtévesztés (hu), félrevezetés
• Japanese: いんちき (inchiki), 欺瞞 (giman), 欺騙 (gihen)

• Kyrgyz: жаңылыштык (ky) (cañılıştık), адашуу (ky) (adaşuu)
• Portuguese: ilusão (pt) f
• Russian: обманчивость (ru) f (obmánčivost')
• Serbo-Croatian: obmana
• Swedish: bedräglighet
• Turkish: mantıksızlık (tr), mugalata (tr), yanlış (tr), yanlış düşünce, yanlış inanış, yanılgı (tr)
• Urdu: مُغالطَہ (mughalta)

false argument

• Bulgarian: софизъм (bg) n (sofizǎm)
• Catalan: fal·làcia f
• Czech: logický klam m
• Danish: fejlslutning  c
• Dutch: drogreden (nl) m, f, schijnreden f, sofisme n
• Finnish: argumentointivirhe
• French: sophisme (fr) m
• German: Trugschluss (de) m, Fehlschluss (de) m
• Icelandic: rökvilla f
• Icelandic: rökvilla f

• Italian: fallacia (it) f
• Japanese: 詭弁 (kiben), 迷妄 (meimō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tankefeil  m

• Portuguese: falácia (pt) f
• Russian: заблуждение (ru) n (zabluždénije), ложный вывод m (lóžnyj vývod), софизм (ru) m (sofízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: zabluda, logička pogreška
• Spanish: falacia (es) f
• Swedish: felslut (sv) n
• Turkish: yanılım

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See also

• sophism
• Appendix:Glossary of fallacies

External links

• 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