Antonyms for fallacy
ˈfæl ə sifal·la·cy

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1. fallacy

   A delusion is a mistaken conviction, an illusion a mistaken perception or inference. An illusion may be wholly of the senses; a delusion always involves some mental error. In an optical illusion the observer sees either what does not exist, or what exists otherwise than as he sees it, as when in a mirage distant springs and trees appear close at hand. We speak of the illusions of fancy or of hope, but of the delusions of the insane. A hallucination is a false image or belief which has nothing, outside of the disordered mind, to suggest it; as, the hallucinations of delirium tremens. Compare DECEPTION; INSANITY.

   Antonyms:
   actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

   Synonyms:
   delusion, error, hallucination, illusion, phantasm

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1. fallacy

   Antonyms:
   truth, verity, fact, logic, argument, soundness, proof, postulate, axiom

   Synonyms:
   sophistry, error, blunder, misconception, bugbear, fiction, delusion, chimera

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1. fallacy, false beliefnoun

   a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

   Synonyms:
   false belief

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1. fallacynoun

   Synonyms:
   deception, delusion, misconception, sophism, sophistry, paralogism

How to use fallacy in a sentence?

1. Joe Kent:

   Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken, John Kerry … Jake Sullivan brought in all these guys who really staked their careers on the Iran deal, the JCPOA, in general, I think we continue to do the wrong things because people do n’t want to admit they’re wrong … the gambler’s fallacy.

2. Stacey Abrams:

   For me it was déjà vu. I am very aware of the frailty and the fallacy of the notion of acts of democracy in Georgia, we watched the secretary of state in 2018 set up a system of voter suppression and we watched the current secretary of state continue the same work. The reality is this was a mix of incompetence, malfeasance. It was a deliberate indifference to voters and it's a solvable problem.

3. Lopez Obrador:

   America First is a fallacy.

4. Myron Ebell:

   Ten thousand years ago, you can look at the record and we have warmer temperatures on the Earth than we do today. Because it goes up and down, we've had freezing periods in the 1970s. They said it was going to be a new cooling period. And now it gets warmer and gets colder, and that's called Mother Nature. But the idea that hurricanes or wildfires were caused just in the last few years is just fallacy.

5. Benjamin Stolberg:

   An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

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