fallacy

Phonetic

US /ˈfæləsi/UK /ˈfæləsi/

Translations

NOUNDeceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind., An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.

Variants

  • fallacies: Plural

Examples

  • Watching this chucklefuck get stumbled up by such an obvious logical fallacy, presented by a child, is a thing of beauty

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  • Not always, but racism tends to be the preserve of people on the lower rungs of the ladder, or with less education, because they have accomplished little or nothing of which to be proud, and so fall back on the logical fallacy of believing that their skin colour or ethnicity makes them inherently superior to somebody of a different group

    Source:www.quora.com

  • It's both, but an ad hominem fallacy doesn't fully

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  • Taleb explains the fallacy as "basing studies of chance on the narrow world of games and dice"

    Source:en.wikipedia.org

  • Not always, but racism tends to be the preserve of people on the lower rungs of the ladder , or with less education, because they have accomplished little or nothing of which to be proud, and so fall back on the logical fallacy of believing that their skin colour or ethnicity makes them inherently superior to somebody of a different group

    Source:www.quora.com

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