Fallacious
adjective
Something false or not true.
His argument was fallacious and did not make sense.
Often appears as...
- fallacious argument
- fallacious reasoning
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
adjective
Something false or not true.
His argument was fallacious and did not make sense.
Often appears as...
- fallacious argument
- fallacious reasoning
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Critical Thinking
Use 'fallacious' to question the validity of an argument or information.
The politician's promises were fallacious; they contradicted known facts.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Intentional
'Fallacious' doesn't always imply someone is deliberately deceiving; it can be an honest mistake.
The scientist acknowledged that his fallacious conclusion was due to an error in his calculations.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Context
'Fallacious' is often used in educational settings to critique logic or evidence.
Your thesis has a strong foundation, but this point here is based on fallacious assumptions.
Pro Tip 1/3Critical Thinking
Use 'fallacious' to question the validity of an argument or information.
The politician's promises were fallacious; they contradicted known facts.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Intentional
'Fallacious' doesn't always imply someone is deliberately deceiving; it can be an honest mistake.
The scientist acknowledged that his fallacious conclusion was due to an error in his calculations.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Context
'Fallacious' is often used in educational settings to critique logic or evidence.
Your thesis has a strong foundation, but this point here is based on fallacious assumptions.
Pro Tip 1/3Critical Thinking
Use 'fallacious' to question the validity of an argument or information.
The politician's promises were fallacious; they contradicted known facts.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Intentional
'Fallacious' doesn't always imply someone is deliberately deceiving; it can be an honest mistake.
The scientist acknowledged that his fallacious conclusion was due to an error in his calculations.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Context
'Fallacious' is often used in educational settings to critique logic or evidence.
Your thesis has a strong foundation, but this point here is based on fallacious assumptions.
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Video examples
Jamil Abu-Wardeh: The...
no one had heard of it. Look at it now. With an inspirational leader, I think this year, the opening of the tallest tower in the world is like adding a finger to that hand, that points at all those who spread fallacious stories about us.
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Birth of the Vibrator PIPE...
crazy initially the procedure called for a doctor to massage the clitoris to the point of orgasm thereby relieving the built-up pressure thought to cause hysteria it was not considered fallacious in any waves considered
Video examples
Jamil Abu-Wardeh: The...
no one had heard of it. Look at it now. With an inspirational leader, I think this year, the opening of the tallest tower in the world is like adding a finger to that hand, that points at all those who spread fallacious stories about us.
Video examples
Birth of the Vibrator PIPE...
crazy initially the procedure called for a doctor to massage the clitoris to the point of orgasm thereby relieving the built-up pressure thought to cause hysteria it was not considered fallacious in any waves considered
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Quote examples
Primo Levi
Italian Scientist
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
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Robert Winston
British Scientist
I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.
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Zadie Smith
British Novelist
The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Zadie Smith
British Novelist
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Gary Chapman
American Author
That is the idea that good Christians don't talk about sex, at least not out loud, and certainly not in the church. I want to say that both of those ideas are fallacious.
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Stokely Carmichael
American Activist
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
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Hypatia
Greek Philosopher
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
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John Chrysostom
Clergyman
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
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Edward Gibbon
English Historian
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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Primo Levi
Italian Scientist
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
Quote examples
Robert Winston
British Scientist
I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.
Quote examples
Zadie Smith
British Novelist
The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.
Quote examples
H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Zadie Smith
British Novelist
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Quote examples
Gary Chapman
American Author
That is the idea that good Christians don't talk about sex, at least not out loud, and certainly not in the church. I want to say that both of those ideas are fallacious.
Quote examples
Stokely Carmichael
American Activist
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
Quote examples
Hypatia
Greek Philosopher
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
Quote examples
John Chrysostom
Clergyman
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
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Edward Gibbon
English Historian
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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