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FALLACY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
Synonyms:
fallacy; false belief
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("fallacy" is a kind of...):
misconception (an incorrect conception)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fallacy"):
pseudoscience (an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions)
logical fallacy (a fallacy in logical argumentation)
pathetic fallacy (the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; 'the friendly sun' is an example of the pathetic fallacy)
sophism; sophistication; sophistry (a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone)
paralogism (an unintentionally invalid argument)
Derivation:
fallacious (containing or based on a fallacy)
