| NOUN | cognition | false belief, fallacy | a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning |
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| Meaning | A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning. | |
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| Synonym | fallacy | |
| Narrower | logical fallacy | A fallacy in logical argumentation |
| 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 |
| Spanish | falacia | |
| Catalan | fal·làcia | |
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