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fallacy
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
I place that term in quotation marks since, as many people have said and continue to say, the version of “debate” that Kirk popularized is a wrestling match in a mud pit of logical fallacies.
Even neomercantilists have a little point buried in a heap of fallacies.
The promise is that we can shape behavior; the fallacy is that the power rarely reaches beyond cosmetic concessions.
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.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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