fallacious
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8.3
- adjective
- /fəˈleɪʃəs/
- Formal
:
falaz
- The vast majority of the conventional wisdom is being shown to be fallacious, and deliberately so.
- fallacious reasoning
- fallacious arguments
- fallacious assumptions
The vast majority of the conventional wisdom is being shown to be fallacious, and deliberately so.
- The vast majority of the conventional wisdom is being shown to be fallacious, and deliberately so.
- All of these inferences, according to Epictetus, are essentially fallacious.
- That is a wrong idea, fallacious science, completely wrong.
- Those those two things are equally fallacious.
Examples
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You don't explain where he went wrong; you don't point to fallacious parts of his thinking.
Blog text (7) -
The switching argument doesn't work because it is based on a fallacious assumption of a uniform distribution.
Blog text (4) -
My father was looking at me as if I were going to add detail to his fallacious story.
Fiction book (1999) -
What happened to the other fallacious argument about "Separation of Church and State"?
Blog text (10) -
It's just a product of the fallacious notion that humans somehow exist outside of nature.
Blog text (3) -
Typically, then, about one example in four of fallacious reasoning is in some way partisan.
Academic text (1990) -
Part of the message in LENR is to dissolve fallacious fears that human beings are "bad."
Blog text (7) -
Kahane's general principle—that whether an argument is good or fallacious depends on context—is surely correct.
Academic text (1990) -
"Nothing could be more fallacious than the threadbare argument "by those who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific "that if we defend Formosa, we alienate continental Asia."
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Many people hold the fallacious belief that success only comes from luck.
Synonyms
266
3.4
Thinking something is true when it is not
148
4.4
Giving a wrong idea that makes people believe false things
62
5.3
Appearing true but making someone believe something that is not true
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8.7
Appearing true but actually wrong
5
5.5
Not based on good evidence or clear reasons
1
9.9
Using arguments that seem true but are meant to trick
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9.9
Seeming logical but actually wrong and meant to mislead
Antonyms
How False
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fallacious comes from the Latin word fallax, itself from fallere meaning 'to deceive'. So a fallacious idea is like a false or deceptive idea that tries to trick you, which is why it is misleading.