Who Is a Fallacious Person?

Something fallacious is a mistake that comes from too little information or unsound sources. ... Fallacious comes ultimately from the Latin fallax, "deceptive." The word fallacious might describe an intentional deception or a false conclusion coming from bad science or incomplete understanding.

What does it mean to be fallacious?

1 : embodying a fallacy a fallacious conclusion a fallacious argument. 2 : tending to deceive or mislead : delusive false and fallacious hopes— Conyers Middleton.

How do you use the word fallacious?

Fallacious sentence example
  1. In no case is the evidence of the senses fallacious or mendacious; the fallacy is in the inference. ...
  2. Yet they are forced into these classes on a wholly fallacious basis. ...
  3. The idea that nuclear power can solve the coming energy crisis is therefore totally fallacious .
Sophia Al-Mansoor

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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