Counterfallacy
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A fallacy that opposes another fallacy.
"Beyond that, to the assertion of white southerners that the blacks who toiled in their fields were satisfied and happy, many observers simply posed the counterfallacy that all southern blacks were hopelessly, totally, and eternally alienated from the place where they had seen so much injustice and hardship."
Example
More examples"Beyond that, to the assertion of white southerners that the blacks who toiled in their fields were satisfied and happy, many observers simply posed the counterfallacy that all southern blacks were hopelessly, totally, and eternally alienated from the place where they had seen so much injustice and hardship."
Etymology
From counter- + fallacy.
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