fallacy
English Thesaurus
1. a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | misconception, |
| definition | : | an incorrect conception (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | pseudoscience, |
| definition | : | an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | logical fallacy, |
| definition | : | a fallacy in logical argumentation (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | pathetic fallacy, |
| definition | : | the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; `the friendly sun' is an example of the pathetic fallacy (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | sophism, sophistication, sophistry, |
| definition | : | a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | paralogism, |
| definition | : | an unintentionally invalid argument (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | fallacious, unsound, |
| definition | : | containing or based on a fallacy (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | fallacious, unsound, |
| definition | : | containing or based on a fallacy (adj.all) |
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