Crossword-Solution: FALLACY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fallacy | n. | Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. |
| Fallacy | n. | An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with FALLACY (5)
Nor must it be imagined that I here commit the fallacy which the logicians call a circle; for since experience renders the majority of these effects most certain, the causes from which I deduce them do not serve so much to establish their reality as to explain their existence; but on the contrary, the reality of the causes is established by the reality of the effects.
There were in all ten red Martians, men and women, and when we had briefly explained our plan they decided to join forces with us, though it was evident that it was with some considerable misgivings that they thus tempted fate by opposing an ancient superstition, even though each knew through cruel experience the fallacy of its entire fabric.
Can you suggest any fallacy?” “He could not have fractured his skull in a fall?” “In a morass, Watson?” “I am at my wits’ end.” “Tut, tut, we have solved some worse problems.
The principles of definition, the law of contradiction, the fallacy of arguing in a circle, the distinction between the essence and accidents of a thing or notion, between means and ends, between causes and conditions; also the division of the mind into the rational, concupiscent, and irascible elements, or of pleasures and desires into necessary and unnecessary--these and other great forms of thought are all of them to be found in the Republic, and were probably first invented by Plato.
Can you suggest any fallacy?” “He could not have fractured his skull in a fall?” “In a morass, Watson?” “I am at my wit's end.” “Tut, tut; we have solved some worse problems.
Quotes with FALLACY (3)
Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?''It isn't that simple. I don't mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I'm no expert in the history of religions, and perhaps this is nothing new--do you happen to know if there was ever a belief in an... imperfect God?''What do you mean by imperfect?' Snow frowned. 'In a way all the gods of the old religions were imperfect, considered that the…
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).