Fallacy Definition

Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    • 1.3.1 Derived terms
    • 1.3.2 Related terms
    • 1.3.3 Translations
    • 1.3.4 See also
  • 1.4 External links

English

Etymology

From Middle English < Old French fallace < Latin fallacia (“deception, deceit”) < fallax (“deceptive, deceitful”) < fallere (“to deceive”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) SAMPA: /f{l@si/

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Noun

fallacy (plural fallacies)

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

Derived terms

• logical fallacy
• formal fallacy
• informal fallacy

Related terms

• fail
• fallacious
• fallibilist
• fallibilism
• fallibility
• fallible

See also

• sophism
• Appendix:Glossary of fallacies

External links

• fallacy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fallacy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• fallacy at OneLook Dictionary Search

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• Fallacy