Plural of fallacy
regular plural
The plural of fallacy is fallacies.
Forms of fallacy
| Singular | fallacy /ˈfæl.ə.si/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | fallacies |
| Countable | countable |
Fallacies in a sentence
- Most of their arguments were dismissable as obvious fallacies.From the entry dismissable
- We now turn to four particular fallacies that describe special kinds of unacceptable premises.2004, William [H.] Hughes, Jonathan Lavery, “Assessing Truth-claims”, in Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills, 4th…. From the entry begging the question
- The begging-the-question fallacies are flawed because they assume, in a variety of ways, the truth of the conclusion in their premises.2008, T. Edward Damer, “Fallacies that Violate the Structural Criterion”, in Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-free…. From the entry begging the question
- Thus the literature of metricism is second only to that of socialism, single taxism, and of other fallacies which never lack adherents and advocates.quoted in 1971, Charles F. Treat, A History of the Metric System Controversy in the United States (page 209). From the entry metricism
- He who obeys not the good Shepherd of the soul and heart has an untruthful mind; a mind filled with fallacies; a mind of wrong resolvings and concludings.1965, Ann Ree Colton, The soul and the ethic, page 167. From the entry concluding
Meaning of fallacy
- noun Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
- noun An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.
Questions about the plural of fallacy
- What is the plural of fallacy?
- The plural of fallacy is fallacies.
- Is fallacy countable?
- Fallacy is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fallacy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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