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Meanings of fallacy in English
Portuguese
falácia Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
Usage of fallacy in English
1
Unfortunately, the suggestion is not practical; a fallacy is concealed in it.
2
The compositional fallacy, however, makes it tempting to believe that it is.
3
However, the American Founders perceived that this proposition contained a huge fallacy.
4
The fallacy of division is the converse of the fallacy of composition.
5
The former fallacy pervaded the speeches of the acute and learned Eldon.
6
It really is time to nail the fallacy of the frictionless Border.
7
Nobler thoughts showed him the fallacy of this beating around the bush.
8
In a couple of answers he exposed the fallacy of enlightened self-interest.
9
The idea that they are more trouble than dogs is a fallacy.
10
To ignore this is the essential fallacy of the cult called Individualism.
11
Failure to prove the truth of this unadmitted statement constitutes the fallacy.
12
Both lads discovered the fallacy of their theories at the same moment.
13
The common fallacy is, that intimacy dispenses with the necessity of politeness.
14
Of that fallacy, sorcery is the positive, and taboo the negative pole.
15
This therefore would be an instance of the fallacy of Equivocal Minor.
16
There is, therefore, a dialectical fallacy in the syllogism- asophismafigurae dictionis.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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