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fallacy
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fallacy
(noun)
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fallacy
/
ˈ
fæləsi/
noun
plural
fallacies
fallacy
/
ˈ
fæləsi/
noun
plural
fallacies
Learner's definition of FALLACY
1
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count
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:
a wrong belief
:
a false or mistaken idea
popular
fallacies
about medicine
It's a
fallacy
(to believe) that the Earth is flat.
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the quality of being false or wrong
The
fallacy
of their ideas about medicine soon became apparent.
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