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.

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