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Fallacies

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errorsnoun(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
falsehoodsnoun(countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.
heresiesnoun(religion) A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance or conflict with established religious beliefs.
mistakesnounAn error.
teachingsnounThe profession of educating people; the activity that a teacher does when he/she teaches.
fallaciousDeceptive or misleading.
fallaciousnessnounThe property of being fallacious.
logical fallacynounA fallacy; a clearly defined error in reasoning used to support or refute an argument, excluding simple unintended mistakes.
sophistriesnoun(uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning.
fallaciouslyIn a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
sophistrynoun(uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning.
sophismnoun(countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
falsehoodnoun(countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.
falsitiesnoun(uncountable) The characteristic of being untrue.
syllogismsnoun(logic) An argument whose conclusion is supported by two premises, of which one contains the term that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other contains the term that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term that is excluded from the conclusion.
argumentationsnounAn exchange of arguments
pathetic fallacynounA metaphor which consists in treating inanimate objects or concepts as if they were human beings, for instance having thoughts or feelings.
fallibilitynounThe state of being prone to error.
argumentsnoun(countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
argumentumnoun(chiefly formal, in law, logic, etc.) Used in numerous Latin phrases (and occasionally alone) in the sense of “appeal” or “argument”.

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