fallacy

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English fallaci, fallace, fallas, from Old French fallace, from Latin fallācia (“deception, deceit”), from fallāx (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallere (“to deceive”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈfæl.ə.si/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈfɛl.ə.si/ === Noun === fallacy (plural fallacies) Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind. Synonyms: deception, deceitfulness (logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument. Synonyms: logical fallacy; see also Thesaurus:incorrect argument Hyponyms: formal fallacy, informal fallacy ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== fail fallible ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== sophism Appendix:Glossary of fallacies === Further reading === “fallacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fallacy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “fallacy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “fallacy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “fallacy”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN. “fallacy”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present. “fallacy” (US) / “fallacy” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.