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Fallacy

//ˈfæl.ə.si//

Synonyms for "fallacy" (168 found)

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Informal (6)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Noun, verb, slang(2 words)

moonshine quibble

Noun, slang(2 words)

empty words circular argument

General use (162)

Noun, verb(21 words)

fault argument error flaw vision flimflam mistake fooling kidding mirage misunderstanding bluffing spoofing conning deceiving misdoing overreaching hoodwinking defrauding swindling

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begging the question

Noun(114 words)

subtlety distortion aberration subterfuge delusion perversion deception inconsistency rationalization absurdity illusion falseness falsity entanglement evasion sophistry equivocation sophistication phantasm unorthodoxy

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casuistry misapplication misfeasance hallucination mystification wishful thinking heresy claptrap song and dance vicious circle misconstruction insincerity solecism speciousness falsehood entrapment circularity misconception deviancy aberrancy circumvention sophism untruth misjudgment peccancy plausibility weak point obfuscation misinterpretation pantheism self-deception self-contradiction victimization non sequitur fallaciousness snow job misbelief hysteron proteron wrongness defectiveness trickiness miscalculation obscurantism sinfulness heterodoxy paralogism elusion errancy special pleading hamartia erroneousness faultiness delusiveness untruthfulness deceptiveness dupery disingenuousness antinomianism enmeshment hylotheism untrueness jesuitism speciosity philosophism ensnarement jesuitry equivocalness bamboozlement flimflammery petitio principii spoofery flawedness gnosticism false belief plausibleness logical fallacy oversubtlety Albigensianism pseudosyllogism Waldensianism argumentum ad hominem arianism spuriousness formal fallacy argumentum ad baculum Manichaeanism inveracity truthlessness Pelagianism monophysism Ebionitism Lollardy Jovinianism emanatism

Name, noun, verb(1 words)

specious reasoning mere rhetoric calculated deception fond illusion willful misconception apparent soundness evasive reasoning sophistical reasoning vicious reasoning argument by analogy argumentum ad captandum bad case crowd-pleasing argument insincere argument material fallacy verbal fallacy Wyclifism false doctrine

Adj, noun, verb(1 words)

Verb(3 words)

outwitting befooling putting on

Name, noun(1 words)

Proper Noun(3 words)

Manichaeism Catharism Erastianism

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