Fallacy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FALLACY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• delusion or error
• a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound arguments
• a failure in reasoning which renders an argument invalid
• faulty reasoning
• false belief
• Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
• An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
• a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a false idea

Words related to FALLACY

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How to use FALLACY in a sentence

• They were both shabby and sad, he thought, and he wondered why but looking closely at them he thought, with the fallacy of youth, that they must be very old.
• I knew the fallacy of appealing to their father, as they and their mother would tell falsehoods, and my word would not be taken in contradiction of theirs.
• Before considering these, however, a fundamental fallacy of the modern mind must be exposed.
• In yielding themselves to this fallacy they overlook the great considerations in which the Federal Constitution was founded.
• I have now reached another grand fallacy in your book.
• But there is a fallacy in this analogy of martyrdom.
• But no man understood better than he did the fallacy of the argument that modern abolitionists had put back the cause of emancipation in the South.
• Others are betrayed to the same desertion of themselves by a contrary fallacy.
• Dodgson hurled at his head, would not confess that he had committed a fallacy.
• Seven years of newspaper grind have taught me the fallacy of trying to write by the inspiration method.
• The fallacy we conceive to be this, that the visible body can be contained within the eye, without the eye of the visible body also being contained therein.
• It rests on the primary fallacy that gates are meant to be opened, whereas they are really meant to be kept shut.
• The political adventurer who planned the conspiracy, is already brought to see the fallacy of his dream.
• So thoroughly convinced was he, together with the whole world, of their guilt, that he never paused to reflect upon the fallacy contained in this remark.
• Till we show the fallacy of this calculation, we cannot expect a durable peace.
• My practice in Oral Surgery, coupled with my own vocal studies exposed this fallacy and revealed to me the true value of nasal resonance.
• While this argument holds true of individuals, its fallacy when applied to groups is obvious.
• I doubted whether I should live to see that fallacy exploded.
• But, alas! what chance have I with the best of arguments against a fallacy which makes you happy? As I write these words, my eyes fill with tears.
• It is falsehood in doctrines and fallacy in principles, to which most of the miseries of men and the misfortunes of nations are owing.
• There is a singular fallacy, as I venture to think, in the argument of very learned and most respectable persons on this subject.
• The theory that there is not enough wealth to go around, and that if one man has a great deal of money others must therefore have too little, is a vicious and dangerous fallacy.
• I have several fat men among my lists of acquaintances who labor under this fallacy.
• At first I thought that a fallacy of memory, or an optical delusion, had betrayed him again, as in his legend of the waistcoat.
• Lowell was a refutation of the fallacy that an American can never be American enough.
• It has given me a settled opinion on these subjects, if nobody can show a fallacy in the argument.
• I always saw the fallacy of these objections, of course.
• It will appear also, on consideration of the matter, that this fallacy is of two principal kinds.
• Taking, therefore, this wide field, it is surely a very notable circumstance, to begin with, that this pathetic fallacy is eminently characteristic of modern painting.

Similar words containing FALLA without suffix cy

fallal9 fallals10 fallaway17 fallacies14 fallalery15 fallalish15 fallaways18 fallacious15 fallaleries14 fallalishly20 fallaciously20 fallaciousness19 fallaciousnesse20 fallaciousnesses21

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