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.
- n. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.