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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King