fallacious
fuh-LAY-shuss · adjective
Based on false reasoning or a mistaken belief.
Memory connection
Picture “false and flashy”
A flashy recipe claims that one slice of cake cures every cough. The claim looks appealing, but its reasoning is false.
The sound cue helps you reach the scene; the action in the scene carries you from the scene to the definition.
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Meaning in context
The argument is fallacious because it assumes that correlation proves causation.
It would be fallacious to judge the entire program from one unusual result.
Fallacious describes reasoning, arguments, assumptions, or conclusions. It does not simply mean factually incorrect; the underlying inference is defective.
Common patterns
- fallacious argument
- fallacious reasoning
- logically fallacious
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