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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
This fallacy was amply disproved by the "cat-eating Haitians" lie.
Zero-sum thinking is literally classified as a logical fallacy, and the reason why should be obvious given a moment's thought.
Trump's relentless repetition of the zero-sum fallacy, however, has sadly convinced many voters that two groups of people are at odds with each other: men and women.
But there’s a disgraceful cynicism working in this “fallacy of the excluded middle.”
What he might not have expected was Harris calling out that fallacy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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