Thesaurus / fallacious
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Some care, however, is necessary in applying this test, as in the hands of inexperienced persons it is sometimes fallacious.
ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRYTHOMAS ANDERSONShe evidently made up her mind that logic was a fallacious mode of inference, and determined to abandon it for the future.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDIt appears to me that the fallacious reasoner, in his private thoughts, would not be likely to proceed beyond the first step.
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC: RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVEJOHN STUART MILLThe fallacious assumption implied in the query, quid Christianis cum regibus?
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAMBut it would appear that even the Colonel's theory was fallacious.
MRS. SKAGGS'S HUSBANDS AND OTHER STORIESBRET HARTEBut to anyone who has seriously studied the sexual life of the child, this logic is utterly fallacious.
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE CHILDALBERT MOLLBut applied philosophy itself relies on a fallacious, or, at best, inadequate source of motive power for ventilation.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, VOL. XV., NO. 388, JUNE 9, 1883VARIOUSIt makes me very bitter against this utterly mistaken and fallacious idea of ours.
PIANO MASTERYHARRIETTE BROWERMy Lords, we know very well what these fallacious blandishments too frequently are.
THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. XI. (OF 12)EDMUND BURKEEvery signal of his coming proved fallacious, and our hopes were at length dismissed.
WIELAND; OR THE TRANSFORMATIONCHARLES BROCKDEN BROWNWORDS RELATED TO FALLACIOUS
- aberrant
- absurd
- brainless
- cockamamie
- crazy
- delirious
- demented
- disconnected
- disjointed
- distraught
- fallacious
- flaky
- foolish
- freaky
- incoherent
- injudicious
- insane
- invalid
- kooky
- loony
- mad
- mindless
- nonsensical
- nutty
- off-the-wall
- preposterous
- raving
- reasonless
- ridiculous
- silly
- sophistic
- specious
- stupid
- unreasonable
- unreasoning
- unsound
- unstable
- unthinking
- unwise
- wacky
- wild
- wrong
- all wet
- at fault
- barking up wrong tree
- confounded
- confused
- confused with
- deceived
- deluded
- duped
- erroneous
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- false
- faulty
- fooled
- ill-advised
- illogical
- inaccurate
- inappropriate
- incorrect
- misconstrued
- misguided
- misinformed
- misled
- off base
- off-track
- sadly mistaken
- tricked
- unadvised
- under wrong impression
- unfounded
- unreal
- unsound
- untrue
- unwarranted
- way-off
- wide of mark
- wrong
- wrong number
- wrongly identified
- ambiguous
- baffling
- cagey
- deceitful
- deceptive
- difficult to catch
- elusory
- equivocal
- evanescent
- fallacious
- fleeting
- fraudulent
- fugacious
- fugitive
- greasy
- illusory
- imponderable
- incomprehensible
- indefinable
- insubstantial
- intangible
- misleading
- occult
- phantom
- puzzling
- shifty
- shy
- slippery
- stonewalling
- subtle
- transient
- transitory
- tricky
- unspecific
- volatile
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