Meaning | A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning. |
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Synonym | false belief |
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Narrower | logical fallacy | A fallacy in logical argumentation |
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paralogism | An unintentionally invalid argument |
pathetic fallacy | The fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects |
pseudoscience | An activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions / assumptions |
sophism, sophistry, sophistication | A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity / ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone |
Broader | misconception | An incorrect conception |
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Spanish | falacia |
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Catalan | fal·làcia |
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Adjectives | fallacious | containing or based on a fallacy |
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