OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14299

fallacy

/ˈfæl.ə.si/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
falacia
An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.
Baldridge also showed the "one molecule of blood," usually held to be the stimulus for attracting sharks, to be another common fallacy, since a molecule of blood does not exist.
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