Fallacy

Noun

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

Adjectives for Fallacy
glittering; discarded; deepest; gross; sophistical; pathetic; discovered.

Verbs for Fallacy
accept—; admit—; challenge—; correct—; demonstrate—; denounce—; discover—; disperse—ies ; disprove—; explode—; rationalize—; reveal—; ridicule—.

Synonyms for Fallacy
delusion, sophistry, illusion, fantasy, quibbling, casuistry, untruth, subterfuge, evasion, equivocation, flaw, misconception, error, mistake, misstatement, perversion, aberrancy.

Antonyms for Fallacy
truth, sureness, fact, evidence, certainty, demonstration, axiom, proof, soundness, verity, surety, logic, reality, verification.

Derived terms
logical fallacy; formal fallacy; informal fallacy;

Related terms
fail; fallacious; fallibilist; fallibilism; fallibility; fallible

Thesaurus
argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, bad case, bamboozlement, befooling, begging the question, bluffing, calculated deception, casuistry, circular argument, circularity, circumvention, claptrap, conning, crowd-pleasing argument, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defectiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, deviancy, disingenuousness, distortion, dupery, elusion, emanatism, empty words, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, equivocalness, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, evasion, evasive reasoning, fallaciousness, false doctrine, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, formal fallacy, hallucination, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, hoodwinking, hylotheism, hysteron proteron, illusion, inconsistency, insincere argument, insincerity, inveracity, jesuitism, jesuitry, kidding, logical fallacy, material fallacy, mere rhetoric, mirage, misapplication, misbelief, miscalculation, misconception, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistake, misunderstanding, moonshine, mystification, non sequitur, obfuscation, obscurantism, outwitting, overreaching, oversubtlety, pantheism, paralogism, peccancy, perversion, petitio principii, phantasm, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, pseudosyllogism, putting on, quibble, rationalization, self-contradiction, self-deception, sin, sinfulness, snow job, solecism, song and dance, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, spoofery, spoofing, spuriousness, subterfuge, subtlety, swindling, trickiness, tricking, truthlessness, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, verbal fallacy, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, victimization, vision, weak point, willful misconception, wishful thinking, wrong, wrongness

Etymology
From <  fallace: <  fallacia: < fallax: < fallere:.

Note
In informal logic and rhetoric, a fallacy is usually incorrect argumentation in reasoning resulting in a misconception or presumption. By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor (e.g. appeal to emotion), or take advantage of social relationships between people (e.g. argument from authority). Fallacious arguments are often structured using rhetorical patterns that obscure any logical argument. Fallacies can generally be classified as informal or formal.

Pronunciation

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Translations

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 * Turkish: mantıksızlık, mugalata, yanlış, yanlış düşünce, yanlış inanış, yanılgı


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