Words and phrases that have a meaning related to fallacy: (135 results)
Often used in the same context:
logical fallacy, myth, falsehood, syllogism, tautology, delusion, folly, theory, canard, presupposition, misconception, truism, illogic, paradox, balderdash, sophistry, postulation, irrationality, specious argument, reductionism, untruth, bunkum, generalization, dichotomy, scientism, incommensurability, notion, misperception, oversimplification, corollary, speciousness, keynesianism, poppycock, hogwash, supposition, tu quoque, dualism, conceit, wishful thinking, absurdity, ignorance, malthusianism, logic, axiom, stupidity, externality, counterargument, disproof, dogma, nostrum, illogicality, shibboleth, foolishness, sophism, contradiction, claptrap, reflexivity, determinist, distortions, underconsumption, anthropocentrism, red herring, illusion, hegelian dialectic, idiocy, furphy, misnomer, falseness, ethnicism, cognitive dissonance, misquotation, incongruence, hypocrisy, wrongheadedness, strawman, subjectivism, essentialism, monism, teleology, imposture, misapprehension, domino theory, casuistry, dubiousness, non sequitur, argument, metaphysic, assumption, judeophobia, big lie, misbelief, tommyrot, dogmatism, reductio ad absurdum, doublethink, dictum, perniciousness, vitalism, quantity theory, reasoning, relativist, fallacies, conundrum, mistake, desideratum, dilemma, inconsistency, misunderstanding, thesis, antithesis, falsity, misapprehensions, misconceptions, pitfall, postulate, riddle
More specific:
ignoratio elenchi, paralogism, pathetic fallacy, petitio, petitio principii, post hoc, pseudoscience
Appears in the definition of:
fallacious, fallaciousness, hysteron proteron, ignoratio elenchi, logical fallacy, pathetic fallacy, petitio, petitio principii, post hoc, post hoc ergo propter hoc, unsound
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Also try:false belief
— Adjectives for fallacy: pathetic, naturalistic, logical, common, ecological, popular, same, genetic, old, intentional, fundamental, more...
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