fallacious

Infinitive complement

assume: Damage from addictive substances and processes is mostly dose related but it is fallacious to assume that addicts necessarily use the greatest quantities.

Modifies a noun

• reasoning: Robust skepticism can be helpful, but fallacious reasoning needs to be exposed and rebutted.
• argument: The example of Norway shows this to be fallacious argument.
• assumption: Post-modernist critics equate historical evidence with 'texts ' on the fallacious assumption that all historical sources are documentary.
• proof: The following is a fallacious proof that " all cows in a field are the same color " .
• belief: Such a policy would lead us slap bang into the fallacious belief that one can separate moral issues from economic ones.
• concept: What else can we understand from the ever-increasing emphasis placed on the utterly fallacious concept of " human rights " as applying to individuals?

Modifying Another Word

• logically: And skeptics then make the logically fallacious jump of concluding that the biblical record is indefensible!
• utterly: However it is more to do with the whole explosion of interest in short films being utterly fallacious.
• not: Well yes, that is what he is doing but it is not fallacious.
• wholly: Yet they are forced into these classes on a wholly fallacious basis.
• obviously: Being pupils of Charcot, they endeavored to support his obviously fallacious theories, but merely succeeded in producing a mass of pseudo-scientific nonsense.
• totally: The idea that nuclear power can solve the coming energy crisis is therefore totally fallacious.