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fallacy

n.

An error in reasoning
inconsistency, illogicality, sophism, sophistry, casuistry, quibble, quibbling, evasion, deceit, deception, delusion, equivocation, subterfuge, Jesuitry, misinterpretation, erroneousness, inexactness, error, deviation from truth, perversion, bias, prejudice, preconception, non sequitur, deceptive belief, deceptiveness, aberration, falsity, false notion, misleading appearance, illusion, speciousness, equivoke, artifice, ambiguity, solecism, paradox, miscalculation, quirk, flaw, cavil, irrelevancy, erratum, invalidity, heresy, heterodoxy.
Antonyms logic*, reason*, law*.
A mistaken idea
misconception, misapprehension, delusion; see error 1, mistake 2.

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Another word for fallacy

noun

An erroneous or false idea:
erroneousness, error, falsehood, falseness, falsity, untruth. See correct, true
Plausible but invalid reasoning:
casuistry, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness. See correct, true

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Paradox, however, soon becomes stale, and fallacy wearisome.
The fallacy that Maltese is a dialect of Arabia has been luminously disproved by A.
In no case is the evidence of the senses fallacious or mendacious; the fallacy is in the inference.
Fish were supposed to be born in the water without sexual connexion, and on the basis of this old physiological fallacy the Cathars equally with the Catholic framed their rule of fasting.
Dealing with the phenomena of interest, he exposes the old fallacy that the rate depends upon the amount of money in a country; low interest does not follow on abundance of money.

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