Thesaurus / fallacy

fallacy

See definition of fallacy on Dictionary.com

nounillusion, misconception

Meet Grammar Coach

Write or paste your essay, email, or story into Grammar Coach and get grammar help

Improve Your Writing

Meet Grammar Coach

Improve Your Writing

antonyms for fallacy

MOST RELEVANT

TRY USING fallacy

See how your sentence looks with different synonyms.

QUIZ

Good Luck On This Lunar New Year Quiz!

START THE QUIZ

How to use fallacy in a sentence

They did so, in fact, only hours after the fallacy that the election was stolen had boiled over into a violent assault on the Capitol, one that left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TRIES TO FIGURE OUT THE PATH FORWARDPHILIP BUMPFEBRUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST

How to avoid logical fallacies and critical-thinking fallacies.

“WE GET ALL OUR GREAT STUFF FROM EUROPE — INCLUDING WITCH HUNTING.” (EP. 446)STEVEN D. LEVITTJANUARY 7, 2021FREAKONOMICS

It’s a planning fallacy based on screwy positive self-perception.

YOUR BRAIN IS TRICKING YOU INTO BUYING THE WRONG GEARHEATHER HANSMANNOVEMBER 24, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE

That wrong-headed mental blind spot, the planning fallacy, results in us not preparing sufficiently for contingencies and problems.

IT MAY SOUND FAR-FETCHED, BUT BUSINESSES NEED TO BE READY FOR AN ELECTION-RELATED DISASTERJAKEMETHOCTOBER 29, 2020FORTUNE

As much as marketers would like to control the narrative around their brands doing so is a fallacy.

‘STOP ASKING FOR A ‘VIRAL’ ANYTHING’: WHY OCEAN SPRAY’S SUCCESSFUL MEME CAN’T BE REPLICATEDKRISTINA MONLLOSOCTOBER 12, 2020DIGIDAY

A fallacy because — well, countries differ from each other on many dimensions, not just three or four.

DOES ANYONE REALLY KNOW WHAT SOCIALISM IS? (EP. 408 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERSEPTEMBER 17, 2020FREAKONOMICS

The night wanderer’s sense of belonging, of deep investment, is not a fallacy, but stands at the center of a realistic experience of what is actually meant by aliveness.

WHAT THE MEADOW TEACHES US - ISSUE 90: SOMETHING GREENANDREAS WEBERSEPTEMBER 16, 2020NAUTILUS

The big fallacy is that it assumes that everyone in the economy is dealing from the same deck of cards.

WHY THE FED’S HUGE POLICY SHIFT ON INFLATION COULD BE ROCKET FUEL FOR STOCKSBERNHARD WARNERAUGUST 28, 2020FORTUNE

An underlying fallacy of Socialism is the concept that poverty or at least extreme poverty, can be banished from the world.

THE INHUMANITY OF SOCIALISMEDWARD F. ADAMS

I remark only the fallacy of reasoning from a wide average, to cases necessarily differing greatly from any average.

A SYSTEM OF LOGIC: RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVEJOHN STUART MILL

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985

Choose the synonym for future

capacitor

lightning