Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being fallacious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun result of a fallacy or error in reasoning.
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- noun The property of being
fallacious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun result of a fallacy or error in reasoning
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Examples
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Krugman and Yglesias will even publish a graph that demonstrates the fallaciousness of their pro-Bush scenario! joe from Lowell Says:
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And on Iran, the WikiLeaks disclosures showed the fallaciousness of the argument that an Israeli-Palestinian accord was critical in getting the moderate Arab world to join forces against Teheran.
Morning Bits Jennifer Rubin 2010
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The reason it's so perfect is because it puts the fallaciousness of the IC argument in a nutshell: in Darwin's Black Box, Behe started with what he was claiming was an observable characteristic that showed evolution couldn't explain the structures.
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It's exhausting for many of us to have to keep explaining the fallaciousness of this suggestion -- that Edwards is culpable of "something" because he didn't have the good sense to know a $400 dollar hair cut would land him in the doghouse.
New York Times' Leslie Wayne Continues Twisted Jihad Against Edwards 2009
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Prophet's funeral or not, and regardless of your opinion of the LDS church ... your comment displayed the utmost ignorance and fallaciousness.
Chart: Polls In Super Tuesday States Show McCain Has It Made 2009
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I can testify to the complete fallaciousness of the “98%” statement as I sit here on the lower end of a dark continent.
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What's puzzling is how the GOP failed to recognize and appropriately adjust to the stagnant fallaciousness of the Limbaugh-Republicanist political calculus when, prior to its colossal Palin error, Rush, for all his supposed influence on the body politic, had failed in his campaign to prevent McCain from capturing the nomination in the first place.
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The logical fallaciousness of this post is staggering.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ricci and the Sotomayor Nomination: 2009
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She was ashamed of the species of expectation raised for Indiana, yet knew not how to interfere in Melmond's idea of her capacity, lest it might seem unkind to represent its fallaciousness; but she was glad to find her soft friend seemed to have a strict guardian in her brother; and wished eagerly to communicate to Edgar
Camilla 2008
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He is pointing out the fallaciousness of this argument.
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