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fallacy
A wrong belief; a false or mistaken idea.
🌱In her new article she exposes yet another fallacy at the heart of these economic arguments. 🌳Philosophers are constantly using the word fallacy. For them, a fallacy is reasoning that comes to a conclusion without the evidence to support it. This may have to do with pure logic, with the assumptions that the argument is based on, or with the way words are used, especially if they don't keep exactly the same meaning throughout the argument. There are many classic fallacies that occur again and again through the centuries and everywhere in the world. You may have heard of such fallacies as the "ad hominem" fallacy, the "question-begging" fallacy, the "straw man" fallacy, the "slippery slope" fallacy, the "gambler's" fallacy, or the "red herring" fallacy. Look them up and see if you've ever been guilty of any of them. fallacious Containing a mistake; not true or accurate.
🌱Any policy that's based on a lot of fallacious assumptions is going to be a bad one. 🌳Fallacious is a formal and intellectual word. We rarely use it in casual speech; when we do, we risk sounding a bit full of ourselves and all-knowing. But it's used widely in writing, especially when one writer is arguing with another. And it's used to describe both errors in fact and errors in reasoning, including fallacies of the kind described in the previous entry. fallibility Capability of making mistakes or being wrong.
🌱Doctors are concerned about the fallibility of these tests, which seem unable to detect the virus about 20% of the time. 🌳You'll find this word showing up in discussions of eyewitness testimony at crime scenes, of lie detectors, and of critical airplane parts. Some of us are most familiar with the fallibility of memory, especially when we remember something clearly that turns out never to have happened. Being fallible is part of being human, and sometimes the biggest errors are made by those who are thought of as the most brilliant of all. infallible 1、 Not capable of being wrong or making mistakes.
2、 Certain to work properly or succeed.
🌱Two college friends of mine claimed to have an infallible system for beating the odds at roulette in Las Vegas. 🌳Watch out when you hear about infallible predictions, an infallible plan, an infallible cure, or even infallible lip gloss. Infallible isn't a claim that scientists, engineers, and doctors like to make, so you're probably getting better information when the word not comes first. You may have heard the phrase "papal infallibility," which refers to the official position of the Roman Catholic church, adopted in the 19th century, that certain solemn statements made by a Pope about faith or morals were not to be questioned. Popes since then have been careful not to make many of these statements.
🌱In her new article she exposes yet another fallacy at the heart of these economic arguments. 🌳Philosophers are constantly using the word fallacy. For them, a fallacy is reasoning that comes to a conclusion without the evidence to support it. This may have to do with pure logic, with the assumptions that the argument is based on, or with the way words are used, especially if they don't keep exactly the same meaning throughout the argument. There are many classic fallacies that occur again and again through the centuries and everywhere in the world. You may have heard of such fallacies as the "ad hominem" fallacy, the "question-begging" fallacy, the "straw man" fallacy, the "slippery slope" fallacy, the "gambler's" fallacy, or the "red herring" fallacy. Look them up and see if you've ever been guilty of any of them. fallacious Containing a mistake; not true or accurate.
🌱Any policy that's based on a lot of fallacious assumptions is going to be a bad one. 🌳Fallacious is a formal and intellectual word. We rarely use it in casual speech; when we do, we risk sounding a bit full of ourselves and all-knowing. But it's used widely in writing, especially when one writer is arguing with another. And it's used to describe both errors in fact and errors in reasoning, including fallacies of the kind described in the previous entry. fallibility Capability of making mistakes or being wrong.
🌱Doctors are concerned about the fallibility of these tests, which seem unable to detect the virus about 20% of the time. 🌳You'll find this word showing up in discussions of eyewitness testimony at crime scenes, of lie detectors, and of critical airplane parts. Some of us are most familiar with the fallibility of memory, especially when we remember something clearly that turns out never to have happened. Being fallible is part of being human, and sometimes the biggest errors are made by those who are thought of as the most brilliant of all. infallible 1、 Not capable of being wrong or making mistakes.
2、 Certain to work properly or succeed.
🌱Two college friends of mine claimed to have an infallible system for beating the odds at roulette in Las Vegas. 🌳Watch out when you hear about infallible predictions, an infallible plan, an infallible cure, or even infallible lip gloss. Infallible isn't a claim that scientists, engineers, and doctors like to make, so you're probably getting better information when the word not comes first. You may have heard the phrase "papal infallibility," which refers to the official position of the Roman Catholic church, adopted in the 19th century, that certain solemn statements made by a Pope about faith or morals were not to be questioned. Popes since then have been careful not to make many of these statements.
FALL comes from the Latin verb fallere, "to deceive." It's actually at the root of the word false, which we rarely use today to mean "deceptive," though that meaning does show up in older phrases: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," for instance, or "A false-hearted lover will send you to your grave." Fallere is even at the root of fail and fault, though you might not guess it to look at them.🌸