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• fallacy — /fal euh see/, n., pl. fallacies. 1. a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy. 2. a misleading or unsound argument. 3. deceptive, misleading, or false nature; erroneousness.… …   Universalium

• fallacy — /ˈfæləsi / (say faluhsee) noun (plural fallacies) 1. a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: a popular fallacy. 2. a misleading or unsound argument. 3. deceptive, misleading, or false nature. 4. Logic any of various types of… …  

• Fallacy — In logic and rhetoric, a fallacy is usually incorrect argumentation in reasoning resulting in a misconception or presumption. By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor (appeal to emotion), or… …   Wikipedia

• fallacy — noun (plural cies) Etymology: Latin fallacia, from fallac , fallax deceitful, from fallere to deceive Date: 14th century 1. a. obsolete guile, trickery b. deceptive appearance ; deception 2 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Gambler's fallacy — The Gambler s fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy (because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913)[1], and also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that if deviations from… …   Wikipedia

• Pathetic fallacy — The pathetic fallacy or anthropomorphic fallacy is the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thoughts, or sensations. The pathetic fallacy is a special case of the fallacy of reification. The word in this use is related to …   Wikipedia

• Base rate fallacy — The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect or base rate bias, is an error that occurs when the conditional probability of some hypothesis H given some evidence E is assessed without taking into account the base rate or prior probability …   Wikipedia

• Genetic fallacy — The genetic fallacy is a fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone s origin rather than its current meaning or context. This overlooks any difference to be found in the present situation,… …   Wikipedia

• "Human genetic diversity: Lewontin's fallacy" (scientific paper) — Infobox Multi Locus Allele Clusters   In a haploid population, when a single locus is considered (blue), with two alleles, + and …   Wikipedia

• Translation fallacy — In linguistics, the translation fallacy is the concept that essentially no word, phrase, text or speech in one language can be reliably translated into another language without loss, addition or other change of meaning. [… …   Wikipedia

• intentional fallacy — ▪ literary criticism       term used in 20th century literary criticism to describe the problem inherent in trying to judge a work of art by assuming the intent or purpose of the artist who created it.       Introduced by W.K. Wimsatt, Jr., and… …   Universalium