Fallacious 1100 Words You Need Week 17 Day 1

Fallacious 1100 Words You Need

Fallacious 1100 Words You Need

/fəˈleɪ.ʃəs/ (adj)

Definition

misleading and not correct, containing mistaken belief, erroneous, wrong, deceptive, false:

Example

Argumentum abusi fallacia (Latin for “argument of the abused fallacy”) is the incorrect use of a formal or informal logical fallacy. As there is an absolute myriad of fallacies to choose from, it’s quite easy to not be entirely familiar with them all. False accusations that someone is making a fallacious argument, when they’re not, become common. Someone might be making a bad or incorrect argument, but there are ways to be wrong without being fallacious about it and there are ways to be right while still being fallacious. There are also ways to counter an argument without providing a list of fallacies – in the business we call these things “counter” arguments. The use of argumentum abusi fallacia then becomes something of an argument by assertion, in which an attempt is made to refute an argument simply by citing the name of a fallacy, without any further explanation of why.

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Antonyms

correct

Parts of speech

Noun: fallacy: myth, error, misconception, delusion, misjudgment

Noun: fallaciousness

Adverb: fallaciously