Associations to the word «Fallacy»

Wiktionary

FALLACY, noun. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
FALLACY, noun. (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.
FALLACY FALLACIES, noun. Plural of fallacy fallacy
FALLACY FALLACY, noun. A fallacious judgment from the falsity of a proof to the falsity of a statement to be proved.
FALLACY OF COMPOSITION, noun. A presumption that if something is true of part(s) of a whole, then it is true of the whole itself.

Dictionary definition

FALLACY, noun. A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats