fallacyn.
/ˈfaləsi/, U.S. /ˈfæləsi/ a. Deception, guile, trickery; a deception, a trick; a false statement, a lie. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
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to give the go-around1925
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie
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1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 63 Ha reynart how wel can ye your falacye [Du. fallacie] and salutacion doon.
1571 E. Newcomen tr. Def. & True Declar. Thinges done in Lowe Countrey sig. E.ijv She in her aunswer..seeketh the fallacie of wordes [L. aucupia verborum], saying that there was nothing graunted as concerning the administration of religion, but only [etc.].
1575 T. Tymme tr. A. Marlorat Catholike & Eccles. Expos. Iohn iii. 63/1 They..are deceyued by the fallacie, and subtile deceytes of Satan [L. fallantur Satanae praestigiis], whiche haue deserued so to bee.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E.1 They [sc. butchers] are not behind in their abuses, fallacies, and deceits.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 202 Then make they a narow bridge couered with earth..that the beastes may dread no fallacy.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 155 Winning by Conquest what the first man lost By fallacy surpriz'd. View more context for this quotation
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. ix. 72 Her utter Detestation of all Fallacy . View more context for this quotation
1780 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XVII. 209 It were better in cases where they petitioned improperly, to say at once, ‘no; your request is improper..’ than to lead them on with false hopes, or be guilty of the smallest degree of fallacy or double dealing.
b. Deceitfulness. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > quality of
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snakishness1901
1582 Bible (Rheims) Heb. iii. 13 Exhort your selues..that none of you be obdurate with the fallacie [1535 Coverdale disceatfulnes; L. fallacia] of sinne.
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. v. x. 207 (heading) Vppon his crying out, Pedro steppeth thither, sees him, knowes him, and findeth the fallacy [It. lo'nganno] of his Wife.
1641 J. Johnson (title) The Academy of Love, describing the Folly of younge Men and the Fallacy of Women.
1736 E. Holyoke Integrity & Relig. 43 With how ill a Grace must he pretend to act upon a Principle of Integrity and Uprightness, who is a Man of known Fallacy and Deceit?
c. Deceptiveness, liability to be misleading, unreliability; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun]
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > delusive nature
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 8 Their understanding..submitteth unto the fallacies of sence, and is unable to rectifie the error of its sensations. View more context for this quotation
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 220 Let us not affirm their existence, and ὄτι on the Fallacies of Sense.
1744 G. Smith Treat. Comets 12 The Astronomers, conscious of the Fallacy of Vision, determine nothing from Appearances, but ground their Examinations on reasonable Principles.
1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers xxii. 290 If..there be any fallacy in our senses, it must be in the perception of external objects.
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 239 The fallacy of human friendship.
1874 Leeds Mercury 5 Aug. 6/3 One more example..of the fallacy of the senses, and we may pass on to the more immediate subject of our discussion.
2.
a. A deceptive or misleading argument, a sophism; an instance of unsound or defective reasoning. In Logic esp. a flaw, material or formal, which renders a syllogism invalid. Also: sophistical reasoning, sophistry. Not in T. Wilson Rule of Reason (1551), which has ‘deceipt’, ‘deceiptfulnesse’, as the equivalent of Latin fallacia in this sense.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > instance of
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy > piece of false reasoning
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [noun] > elements of
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1532 T. More Confutacyon Tyndales Answere i. p. ix Many suche spyrituall persones..so be wonte to reason and serche the cause of goddes commaundementys wyth them selfe as kynge Saul dyd..that they fall vppon fallacyes and false causes.
1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. f. cxlvv As to saye in a like speach, I am not iustified without my .v. senses, and yet do thei not iustifye me, ye speke in a lyke fallacie as the man told the boter wyfe yt she made hir boter with her eares.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 100 It is a false fallacie..to argue from a parte to the hole.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xvii. 208 To helpe to answere the subtilties or fallacies.
a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) vii. 173 I shall..proceed to shew the fallacies, and other weaknesses of those pretenses.
1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iii. 472 That Sort of Fallacy which is called a Circle is very near akin to the Petitio Principii.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. iv. 431 The fallacy which seems to have misled those gentlemen. View more context for this quotation
1819 Sir T. Plumer in C. T. Swanston Rep. II. 584 Where there is a conversion of joint property by a valid act, it is a fallacy to consider it still joint.
1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 284 The commonest fallacy is ambiguity of the middle term.
1911 F. W. Wright Stud. Menander i. 52 Without assuming a deliberate fallacy on the part of the scholiast, I suspect that some such process lay back of the gloss in Hesychius.
1967 Times 4 Aug. 19/8 It is a fallacy to conclude that such sales [by London banks] must represent a flight from the pound by UK residents.
2002 J. J. Ross in D. Howard-Snyder & P. K. Moser Divine Hiddenness ix. 188 There is no obvious fallacy in his reasoning as such.
b. In various phrases with of, denoting particular classical categories of logical (esp. syllogistic) fallacy, as fallacy of (the) accident [after post-classical Latin fallacia accidentis (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources)] , fallacy of (the) consequent [after post-classical Latin fallacia consequentis (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources)] , fallacy of division [after post-classical Latin fallacia divisionis (13th cent.; 14th cent. in a British source)] , etc.fallacy of composition: see composition n. 4b.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy > other types of fallacy
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fallacy of (the) accident1568
fallacy of division?1582
amphiboly1588
amphibology1589
equivocation1605
dominative argument1656
fallacy of the heapa1774
illicit process1827
obscurum per obscurius1842
genetic fallacy1904
type-fallacy1935
1552 R. Ascham Let. 12 July in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 12 Lest the fallax of composicion and division..inverte the sentence.]
1568 H. Billingsley tr. P. M. Vermigli Most Learned Comm. Epist. Romanes f. 396 Wherfore it is a fallacie or deceite (as they call it) of the Accident [L. ergo fallacia, vt appellant, Accidentis].
1578 T. Rogers tr. P. Cæsar Gen. Disc. Damnable Sect Vsurers ix. 27 I deny the consequent, and the reason is, because it is a fallacie of the accident [L. fallacia accidentis].
?1582 T. Wilcox tr. T. de Bèze Disc. True & Visible Markes Catholique Churche sig. A6 This is that which is well knowne, euen to children which they are wount to call an elench, or a fallacy of composition and diuysion [L. Compositionis & Diuisionis elenchum].
1587 H. Parry tr. Z. Ursinus Summe of Christian Relig. ii. 689 Wherefore it is a fallacie of the consequent [L. fallacia consequentis], if it bee concluded, Therefore for her loue manie sins are forgiuen her.
1685 tr. P. Nicole & A. Arnauld Logic xix. 108 To judge of a thing which only agrees with it by accident. This Sophism is call'd in Schools Fallacia accidentis, the Fallacy of the Accident.
1685 tr. P. Nicole & A. Arnauld Logic xix. 109 To pass..from sence compos'd to sence divided..is call'd..Fallacy of division.
1711 Obed. to Civil Govt. clearly Stated 15 The Papists and Whigs tell us, that Adam's Power was only Oeconomical, not Civil: But 'tis a Fallacy of the Division; for he had both.
1750 J. Wesley Compend. Logick ii. ii. 31 The Fallacy of the Accident; when some Accidental Circumstance is confounded with what is essential.
1856 Amer. Law Reg. 4 146 This involves what the logicians call the fallacy of division, for it assumes that to be true of each State separately, which is only true of all the States in the aggregate.
1889 R. F. Clarke Logic ix. 455 The Fallacy of consequent occurs in hypothetical syllogisms, where the antecedent and consequent are confused together.
1961 J. G. Brennan Handbk. Logic (ed. 2) x. 213 The Gambler's Fallacy may be construed as an example of the fallacy of division.
1967 Philosophy 42 7 An avoidance of the fallacy of accident or secundum quid.
2011 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 69 317 To put the matter this way is to commit the fallacy of division.
c. Also in extended use in various phrases denoting other categories of fallacy (chiefly with reference to unsound or defective reasoning), as fallacy of misplaced argument, fallacy of misplaced concreteness, fallacy of simple location, fallacy of the perfect dictionary, etc. (see quots.).In some cases partaking of sense 4a.gambler's fallacy, pathetic fallacy, psychologist's fallacy, etc.: see first element.
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1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 160 All violent feelings..produce..a falseness in..impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the ‘Pathetic fallacy’.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. vii. 196 The great snare of the psychologist is the confusion of his own standpoint with that of the mental fact about which he is making his report. I shall hereafter call this the ‘psychologist's fallacy’ par excellence.
1917 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 14 653 The second fallacy arises from the attribution of the so-called religious experience to outside, ‘higher’ forces in cases where, in reality, the cause of the experience is merely physiological... This may be called the fallacy of false attribution.
1925 A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World (1926) iii. 64 The accidental error of mistaking the abstract for the concrete..is an example of what I will call the ‘Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness’.
1926 Jrnl. Philos. 23 620 No such separation is necessary, in his [sc. A. W. Moore's] opinion, if meanings are recognized as functions of the existential ‘significant symbol’ and the fallacy of ‘simple location’ is avoided.
1929 A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality i. i. 9 The ‘fallacy of misplaced concreteness’..consists in neglecting the degree of abstraction involved when an actual entity is considered merely so far as it exemplifies certain categories of thought.
1931 Mind 40 229 When one first has committed ‘the fallacy of simple location’, to wit, that certain elements in nature must be in one place and cannot possess a duplicity..of spatial situations.
1938 A. N. Whitehead Modes of Thought 235 The very natural belief, that mankind has consciously entertained all the fundamental ideas which are applicable to its experience. Further it is held that human language, in single words or in phrases, explicitly expresses these ideas. I will term this presupposition, the Fallacy of the Perfect Dictionary.
1942 R. G. Collingwood New Leviathan iv. 73 The fallacy of arguing about questions like this is what I call the Fallacy of Misplaced Argument; which may be defined as the fallacy of arguing about any object immediately given to consciousness.
1959 D. Huff How to take Chance xi. 156 Where chance is an important factor, conclusions based on a few instances remain highly untrustworthy—the fallacy of the small sample.
2005 Virginia Law Rev. 91 1651 Scholars and Justices alike frequently fall prey to a related and more insidious lure, which I will call the fallacy of perfect enforcement.
3. Unsoundness, defectiveness (of an argument, line of reasoning, etc.); speciousness, sophistical quality.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > quality of
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [noun] > quality of
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1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie ii. f. 45v Who seeth not the Fallacy of this lewde Argument, by the aequiuocation, or similitude in termes of the two olde and accustomed lawes of God?
1654 J. Owen Doctr. Saints Perseverance xii. 269 The fallacy of this Discourse lyes in an insinuation that God by his Effectuall..operations for the preservation of Believers in Gospell Obedience,..doth change their nature.
1739 tr. N. Dutot Polit. Refl. upon Finances & Commerce of France Pref. p. v Our Author detects the fallacy of his reasoning in every particular.
1777 J. Priestley Doctr. Philos. Necessity Pref. 30 I was enabled to see the fallacy of most of the arguments.
1854 G. F. Train Let. 7 Mar. in Amer. Merchant (1857) xvi. 434 How nicely you riddled his argument, how ingeniously you showed up the fallacy of his logic.
1896 Argosy Jan. 375/2 No amount of argument on my part could convince her of the fallacy of her reasoning.
1911 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 23 Feb. 275/2 There seems a possible element of fallacy in the inference that a life saved is necessarily a financial asset to the state.
2000 I. Loudon Trag. of Childbed Fever v. 73 His colleague..was quick to point out the fallacy of his reasoning.
4. † b. The condition of being mistaken or deluded. Obsolete.
a. A mistaken or delusory belief or idea, an error, esp. one founded on unsound reasoning.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun]
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > false proposition, statement, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [noun] > instance of
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night-philosophy1677
sphalm1715
pseudo-idea1863
1590 R. Hitchcock tr. F. Sansovino Quintesence of Wit f. 3v The counsells of Captains oftentimes fall out to be full of fallacies [It. sono spesso fallaci], vnlesse they be fauoured by the force of fortune.
1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. G3 False Dreamer, perish with thy witched newes, Villaine thou woundst me with thy fallacies.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 189 Ile entertaine the free'd fallacie . View more context for this quotation
1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) Ded. p. xxii When They cannot impose a Fallacy, endeavour..to hinder Men from discerning a Truth.
1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 409 When a child, or a cat, or a bird, first sees its own image in a looking-glass, it believes another animals exists before it, and detects this fallacy by going behind the glass to examine.
1825 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 59/2 A vast number of absurd and mischievous fallacies.
1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing i. 12 Another extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air.
1909 Econ. World 28 Oct. 7/2 Another fallacy—that a determination to win is the only thing.
1987 A. M. Colman Facts, Fallacies & Frauds in Psychol. iv. 88 These results are evidently highly counter-intuitive and they dramatically refute the fallacy that psychology is nothing but common sense.
2013 Atlantic Nov. 79/1 Most of us want to believe that automation frees us to spend our time on higher pursuits but doesn't otherwise alter the way we behave or think. That view is a fallacy.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > being astray, error
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1645 E. W. Life & Death William Lawd 31 He could not but have so much light remaining, as to clear unto himselfe his falacy about this word, Protestant.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xi. 102 We being then thus obnoxious to fallacy in our apprehensions and judgments.
1777 C. Clarke True Theory & Pract. Husbandry i. 32 Such fallacy and indolence must by no means be complied with.
c. Incorrectness, erroneousness, mistakenness (of an opinion, belief, statement, etc.).
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1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra ii. sig. X (heading) The Fallacy of hopes or wishes.
1698 A. B. Myst. Phanaticism vii. 68 Of this our own sad Experience may abundantly satisfy us, and withall plainly shew the fallacy of this Artifice.
1722 J. Monis Whole Truth 33 in B. Colman Disc. College-Hall Cambr. With what has been said, I hope the Fallacy of their Interpretation will appear clearly to our Sight.
1731 T. Spateman Serm. preached before Sons of Clergy 12 Such a Practice..may, and in Fact has done, much Mischief both in Church and in State, before the Fallacy of it can be detected and exploded.
1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. 158 The returns under the population acts have shown the fallacy of these opinions.
1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru II. iii. ix. 29 Expectations of wealth, of which almost every succeeding expedition had proved the fallacy.
1906 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 8 Dec. 1884/1 If the facts supplied by these gynecologists are contrary to the classical teaching, it is simply additional evidence of its fallacy.
1949 G. Shurr & R. D. Yocom Mod. Dance 3 The fallacy of this statement became increasingly apparent as personal contact with..teacher education programs in the colleges and universities increased.
2010 W. F. Hanks Converting Words 378 As long as we read these books in isolation from the other colonial discourse, the fallacy of this way of reading remains hidden.
5. Proneness to error, fallibility.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 1c.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > liability to err
fallibility1608
slipperiness1612
fallacy1651
errableness1654
errability?1706
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 206 Finding the fallacy of the infallible Chair, he hearkens after other Doctors.
1714 T. Pearson Hester iii. 64 Yet not on Forces of her own relies The pious Queen, but to her Maker flies. Of human Pow'r the Fallacy she knew.
1796 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) III. 87 Experience has taught me a sincere faith in the fallacy of human opinions.
1833 Globe (Washington, D.C.) 9 Oct. The following paragraph [from that paper] is one instance..of the fallacy of its memory.
1837 M. O'Conor Picturesque & Hist. Recoll. 170 The fickleness of human opinions and the fallacy of human reason required an infallible guide.
1911 Virginia Law Reg. 16 653 In the course of that debate occurred one of the most singular instances of the fallacy of human memory.
1995 J. R. Matthews Quantification & Quest Med. Certainty ii. 21 Given the fallacy of human memory, surgeons would tend to remember their successful cases more than their unsuccessful ones.
2001 MLN 116 37 Merlin's new prophecies..demonstrate that the fallacy of human judgment is not restricted to the characters of the poem.
Compounds
General attributive.
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1820 Squib-bk: Acct. Liverpool Election 100 I think, that of all the fallacy-mongers of our day, he is the most conspicuous.
1895 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 9 134 The glib fallacy-monger has great advantages over the advocate of sound doctrine.
1954 G. Ryle Dilemmas viii. 115 These studies yielded a modest degree of codification of the inference-patterns that were examined... Certain crucial fallacy-patterns were classified.
1979 A. Flew Dict. Philos. 353/2 If..you commit a fallacy of some recognized and labelled sort, then your particular argument is one token of that general fallacy type.
1987 Renaissance Q. 40 240 Within this pentadic substructure..Fraunce introduces and fills out his fallacy classification.
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n.1481- a devil of a
- a devil way
- a dibs
- a dickens of a
- a different cup of tea
- a different or another kettle of fish
- a different pair of shoes
- a different planet
- a different story
- a dime a dozen
- a dinner with duke humphrey
- a dip in or into
- a dip in or into a book
- a disadvantage
- a discredit to
- a distinction without a difference
- a dog for the bow
- a dog has his day
- a dog that will bring a bone will carry one
- a dog that will fetch a bone will carry one
- a dog to the bow
- a dog's life
- a doll's face
- a don at
- a done deal