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.
Phrases
Galileo fallacyGoomba fallacyMonte Carlo fallacyTexas sharpshooter fallacyapex fallacyassociation fallacybandwagon fallacybase rate fallacyblack swan fallacyconceptual fallacyconjunction fallacycounterfallacyethnocentric fallacyetymological fallacyfallaciousfallacy fallacyfallacy of compositionformal fallacygambler's fallacygenetic fallacygoomba fallacyinformal fallacyintensional fallacyintentional fallacyjust-world fallacylogical fallacyludic fallacymasked man fallacymasked-man fallacynaturalistic fallacynirvana fallacyno true Scotsman fallacypathetic fallacyphallusysunk costs fallacytoupee fallacytoupée fallacy
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