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fallacies
noun as in illusion, misconception
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- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- faultiness
- flaw
- illogicality
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- mistake
- notion
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- speciousness
- subterfuge
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Example Sentences
The jury for her joint trial with Sollecito was never sequestered, guaranteeing the barrage of outrageous fallacies surrounding the proceedings tainted their judgment.
“One of the fallacies is that this is only targeting Latinos. If you look at the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Chinese, even Japanese communities, they’re being picked up right in court.”
Ultimately, reframing the issue and zooming out can help counter the emotionally charged nature of these types of decisions that often lead to sunk cost fallacies.
Here are four of his essay’s more obvious fallacies.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office denounced Lai for promoting “separatist fallacies” and for advocating Taiwanese independence.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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