FALSEHOOD vs FALLACY: NOUN
- The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
- An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy.
- The practice of lying.
- Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
- The fact or quality of being false; falseness; dishonest purpose or intention; treachery; deceitfulness; perfidy: opposed to truthfulness.
- That which is false; a false representation in word or deed; an untruth; a lie: as, the tale is a series of falsehoods; to act a falsehood.
- False manifestation or procedure; deceitful speech, action, or appearance; counterfeit; imposture; specifically, in law, a fraudulent imitation or suppression of truth to the prejudice of another.
- Synonyms Falsehood, Falseness, Falsity; untruth, fabrication, fiction. Instances may be quoted in abundance from old authors to show that the first three words are often strictly synonymous; but the modern tendency has been decidedly in favor of separating them, falsehood standing for the concrete thing, an intentional lie; falseness, for the quality of being guiltily false or treacherous: as, he is justly despised for his falseness to his oath; and falsity, for the quality of being false without blame: as, the falsity of reasoning.
- Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
- A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
- Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
- A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
- The property of being false.
- A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie
- Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful.
- A false statement
- A false notion.
- A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference.
- Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness.
- The quality of being deceptive.
- Deceptiveness; deception; deceit; deceitfulness; that which is erroneous, false, or deceptive; that which misleads; mistake.
- Specifically— A false syllogism; an invalid argumentation; a proposed reasoning which, professing to deduce a necessary conclusion, reaches one which may be false though the premises are true, or which, professing to be probable, infers something that is really not probable, or wants the kind of probability assigned to it.
- The fallacy of accident, arising when a syllogism is made to conclude that, because a given predicate may be truly affirmed of a given subject, the same predicate may be truly affirmed respecting all the accidents of that subject.
- The fallacy of speech respective and speech absolute, occurring when a proposition is affirmed with a qualification or limitation in the premises, but virtually without the qualification in the conclusion.
- The fallacy of irrelevant conclusion, or ignoration of the elench, occurring when the disputant, professing to contradict the thesis, advances another proposition which contradicts it in appearance but not in reality.
- The fallacy of the consequent, or non sequitur, an argument from consequent to antecedent, which may really be a good probable argument.
- Begging the question, or the petitio principii, a syllogism, valid in itself, but in which that is affirmed as a premise which no man who doubts the conclusion would admit.
- The fallacy of false cause, arising when, in making a reductio ad absurdum, besides the proposition to be refuted, some other false premise is introduced.
- The fallacy of many interrogations in which two or more questions are so proposed that they appear to be but one: as, “Have you lost your horns?” a question which implies that you had horns.
- Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
- An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
- A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
FALSEHOOD vs FALLACY: RELATED WORDS
- Fabrication, Lie, Liar, False, Falseness, Dishonesty, Mendacity, Deception, Fallacy, Deceit, False statement, Falsification, Misrepresentation, Falsity, Untruth
- Aberration, Deceit, Misinterpretation, Mirage, Misunderstanding, Mistake, Deception, Misreading, Reasoning, Misapprehension, Illusion, Misconception, Delusion, Falsehood, False belief
FALSEHOOD vs FALLACY: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Mistake, Forgery, Fabrication, Lie, Liar, False, Falseness, Dishonesty, Mendacity, Deception, Fallacy, Deceit, Falsification, Falsity, Untruth
- Illogic, Specious argument, Myth, Syllogism, Logical fallacy, Error, Loophole, Blunder, Lie, Aberration, Deceit, Mistake, Deception, Misreading, Falsehood
FALSEHOOD vs FALLACY: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- This is a complete and overwhelmingly demonstrable falsehood.
- Acts of concealment and falsehood were severely punished.
- FBI files on it, and confirmed the falsehood.
- Its falsehood grew out of my own fears.
- Beardstown as to actually call it a falsehood.
- Care Alternatives, expressly rejected the objective falsehood requirement.
- The dualistic divide is over truth and falsehood.
- He goes overboard and heaps falsehood on top of falsehood, even where the truth would be less harmful than the lies.
- He sends more falsehood on their way as a judgment on existing sin and falsehood.
- Truth has now arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is by its nature bound to perish.
- This fallacy often blurs with the oversimplified cause fallacy when discussing the connection between aging and experience.
- Sometimes we encounter the inversion fallacy and the fallacy of mistaking correlation for cause committed simultaneously.
- Moralistic fallacy is the inverse of the naturalistic fallacy defined below.
- Genetic Fallacy: The literary term genetic fallacy is a fault caused due to irrelevance.
- Guilt by Association Alias: Bad Company Fallacy The Company that You Keep Fallacy.
- Fallacy as he tries to get away with this type of fallacy.
- The Van Gogh Fallacy is an example of a logical fallacy.
- The slippery slope fallacy is a logical fallacy.
- The genetic fallacy is not always a fallacy.
- Of an appeal to vanity fallacy to vanity fallacy vanity fallacy occurs just because we tend to skip possible.
FALSEHOOD vs FALLACY: QUESTIONS
- What is the main conflict in the blinding of Truth by Falsehood?
- What is the impact of the act on Injurious Falsehood?
- Was Shakespeare's 'Double Falsehood' really written by Shakespeare?
- What are the criteria used to distinguish truth from falsehood?
- Why did Chanakya say that only women can speak falsehood?
- Why is it necessary to distinguish truth from falsehood?
- What does the Bible say about slander and falsehood?
- Can malicious falsehood claim be awarded under general damages?
- Do representativeness heuristics violate extensionality and conjunction fallacy?
- Do educational institutes teach the middle ground fallacy?
- Are lottery players influenced by gambler's fallacy?
- Why is this logical fallacy important to understand?
- When has someone Committee the conjunction fallacy?
- What is suppressed evidence fallacy of presumption?
- Is Chalmers'theory subject to phenomenological fallacy?
- Does cultural relativism commit the naturalistic fallacy?
- Why does Hirsch think the intentional fallacy is not a fallacy?
- Why is the problem-solving fallacy considered a fallacy?