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fallacy (iou) and ray(4) (iou)


fallacy (iou)



fallacy noun. L15.
[Latin fallacia, from fallax, -ac-, from fallere deceive: see -ACY. Cf. earlier FALLACE.]
a. Deception, guile, trickery; a deception; a lie. L15-M18.
b. Deceptiveness, unreliability. L16.
A deceptive argument, a sophism; spec. in Logic, a flaw which vitiates a syllogism; one of the types of such flaws. Also, sophistry. M16.
fallacy of accident the fallacy of arguing from one point to another where the two points agree, or do not agree, purely by accident. fallacy of composition the fallacy of assuming that what is true of a member of a group is true for the group as a whole. fallacy of misplaced concreteness the fallacy of considering an abstract entity to be more concrete than it actually is. PATHETIC fallacy.
John Goodwin I shall..proceed to show the fallacies and Other weaknesses of those pretences.
An error, esp. one founded on false reasoning. Also, delusion, error. L16.
J. Marquand The fallacy that all Chinese look alike.
Fallibility. rare. M17-L18.
Unsoundness of opinion, an argument, etc.; delusiveness, disappointing character. L18.

ray(4) (iou)



ray noun3. Also (earlier) re. ME.
[Latin re(sonare): see UT.]
Music. The second note of a scale in a movable-doh system; the note D in the fixed-doh system.