Definition of Fallacy

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Fallacy

Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.

An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.

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Fallacy Quotations

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Benito Mussolini

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
Wole Soyinka

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
Buddy Rich

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
Henri Poincare

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps

You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.
Betty Hill

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
Niklaus Wirth

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
Harold Washington

Fallacy Translations

fallacy in Norwegian is feilslutning

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