fallacious Definition
fal·la·cious (fə lā′s̸həs)
adjective
- containing a fallacy; erroneous fallacious reasoning
- misleading or deceptive
- causing disappointment; delusive
Etymology: L fallaciosus
fallacious Related Forms
fal·la′·ciously adverb
fal·la′·cious·ness noun
fallacious Synonyms
fallacious Usage Examples
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.
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