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Fallacy

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false beliefnouna misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

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false beliefnouna misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
illusionnoun(countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
deceptionnounAn instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
delusionnounA false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
deceitnounAn act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
falsehoodnoun(countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.
aberrationnounThe act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.
misunderstandingnounA mistake as to the meaning of something or a specific point of view; erroneous interpretation or comprehension; misconception.
errornoun(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
misapprehensionnounA failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding.
mistakenounAn error.
misinterpretationnounAn instance of misinterpreting.
misconceptionnounA mistaken belief, a wrong idea.
misreadingnounAn incorrect reading.
blundernounA clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
reasoningnoun(uncountable) The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises, abstract thought, ratiocination; (countable) any instance of this, especially as a process leading to an action, motive.
lienoun(golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
loopholenoun(figurative) A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.
miragenounAn optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
misjudgmentnounAn act of misjudging; a mistake in judgment.

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