FALLACY meaning: Error in reasoning or logic

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word fallacy:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

fallacy: Merriam-Webster.com
fallacy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
fallacy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
fallacy: Collins English Dictionary
fallacy: Vocabulary.com
Fallacy, fallacy: Wordnik
fallacy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
fallacy: Wiktionary
fallacy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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fallacy: Infoplease Dictionary
fallacy: Dictionary.com
fallacy: Online Etymology Dictionary
fallacy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Fallacy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Fallacy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
fallacy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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fallacy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
fallacy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
fallacy: Free Dictionary
fallacy: Mnemonic Dictionary
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fallacy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

fallacy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

fallacy: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)

A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
Fallacy: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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fallacy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
▸ noun: (logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.

Opposite:

truth, fact, reality

Types:

ad hominem, red herring, ad populum, slippery slope, false dilemma, circular argument, straw man, appeal to authority, more...

Phrases:

naturalistic fallacy, pathetic fallacy, logical fallacy, intentional fallacy, Ecological fallacy, more...

Adjectives:

pathetic, naturalistic, logical, common, ecological, popular, same, genetic, old, intentional, fundamental

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