fallacy
Example Sentences
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That would be a fallacy, but Mr. Bottum didn’t commit it.
“There’s this fallacy that companies were lowering the bar,” she says.
On wages, Mr. Vance is repeating the lump of labor fallacy that American and foreign workers compete for a limited number of jobs.
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.
From Salon
Even neomercantilists have a little point buried in a heap of fallacies.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.