Synonyms for fallacy
ˈfæl ə sifal·la·cy

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1. fallacy

   A delusion is a mistaken conviction, an illusion a mistaken perception or inference. An illusion may be wholly of the senses; a delusion always involves some mental error. In an optical illusion the observer sees either what does not exist, or what exists otherwise than as he sees it, as when in a mirage distant springs and trees appear close at hand. We speak of the illusions of fancy or of hope, but of the delusions of the insane. A hallucination is a false image or belief which has nothing, outside of the disordered mind, to suggest it; as, the hallucinations of delirium tremens. Compare DECEPTION; INSANITY.

   Synonyms:
   delusion, error, hallucination, illusion, phantasm

   Antonyms:
   actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

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1. fallacy

   Synonyms:
   sophistry, error, blunder, misconception, bugbear, fiction, delusion, chimera

   Antonyms:
   truth, verity, fact, logic, argument, soundness, proof, postulate, axiom

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1. fallacy, false beliefnoun

   a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

   Synonyms:
   false belief

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1. fallacynoun

   Synonyms:
   illusion, deception, deceit, delusion, mistake, error, misconception, misapprehension

2. fallacynoun

   Synonyms:
   sophism, sophistry, deceitful argument

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1. fallacynoun

   Synonyms:
   deception, delusion, misconception, sophism, sophistry, paralogism

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1. List of paraphrases for "fallacy":

   falsehood, misconception, illusion, mistake

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1. List of known nicknames for "Fallacy":

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1. Amy Peikoff:

   Individuals should not be outsourcing their critical thinking toanyone — whether another individual, a company … or a government official, how has the West come to distrust the individual in such a fundamental way ? An appeal to authority is, as basic logic tells us, a fallacy. It is not the road to salvation, no matter how well intentioned.

2. Nadif Jama:

   The fallacy and satanic mindset of Al Shabaab is that in Somalia, they kill Muslims and Somalis, they cross the border here and then say they are killing non-Muslims. That is a tricky way of doing business.

3. Benjamin Stolberg:

   An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

4. Jack Donson:

   I've never seen in my entire career a suicide watch lasting more than a week, so the context of him committing suicide while on watch, that's just a fallacy.

5. Emma Goldman:

   There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.