fallacy
/făl′ə-sē/
noun
  1. A false notion.
  2. A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference.
  3. Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. More at Wordnik
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EasyBib
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How To Use Fallacy In A Sentence | EasyBib
March 5, 2023 - Here are but a few sample sentences of the word in action! She is spreading fallacies about my ice cream business, and I’m losing customers. She says there are ants in my kitchen! You’re attacking my character rather than my argument. I’m afraid that’s a logical fallacy and an ad hominem attack. I doubt you’ll be able to sway the voters with an obvious fallacy about my military record, but you go ahead and try.
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YourDictionary
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Examples of "Fallacy" in a Sentence | YourDictionary.com
In no case is the evidence of the senses fallacious or mendacious; the fallacy is in the inference. ... If we may pass by the doctrine of the Identity of Indiscernibles, which played a part of some importance in subsequent philosophy, and the Law of Continuity, which as Leibnitz represents it is, if not sheer dogma, reached by something very like a fallacy, Gerhardt, vi.
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How to Use Fallacy in a Sentence | Chegg Writing
March 5, 2023 - Here are but a few sample sentences of the word in action! She is spreading fallacies about my ice cream business, and I’m losing customers. She says there are ants in my kitchen! You’re attacking my character rather than my argument. I’m afraid that’s a logical fallacy and an ad hominem attack.
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Merriam-Webster
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FALLACY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
—Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2026 Alas, economics is littered with fallacies. —Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026 The fallacy was that it was limited to the United States. —Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fallacy
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Cambridge Dictionary
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FALLACY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
I don't see lots of just fallacies being promoted. ... The idea that a newspaper only publishes what a "majority" of readers want to read is a complete fallacy.
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Merriam-Webster
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Examples of 'FALLACY' in a Sentence | Merriam-Webster
'Fallacy' in a sentence: The fallacy of their ideas about medicine soon became apparent.
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Sentence Dictionary
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Fallacy in a sentence (esp. good sentence like quote, proverb...)
(22) He argues that the project of defamiliarisation in photography rested upon acceptance of the fallacy of the transparency of the photograph. (23) However, the assumption that productivity must be directly related to biomass or chlorophyll is a fallacy.
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Fallacy: In a Sentence – WORDS IN A SENTENCE
June 26, 2013 - While the business plan sounds good on paper, it is built on the fallacy that people will pay thirty dollars to see a movie.
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Wineverygame
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Fallacy - Meaning, Examples - Fallacy in a sentence
Even with the unparalleled access to information that the Internet affords us, lots of us still, probably unknowingly, believe things that actually aren’t true. Just as the Internet can spread information, it can also easily proliferate misinformation. If we want our decisions to be fueled by reason rather than speculation, it is up to us to do our research and recognize ideas that might be fallacies.
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WordHippo
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What is the verb for fallacy?
Verbs for fallacy include fail, faile, failed, failest, faileth, failing and fails. Find more words at wordhippo.com!
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Collins Dictionary
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Examples of 'FALLACY' in a sentence | Collins English ...
So people should be inoculated against these fallacies. ... Economic fallacies are all too common. ... You also mentioned minimum wage loss as being another example of a chess piece fallacy.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Fallacy Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
The fallacy of their ideas about medicine soon became apparent. [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples · ASK THE EDITOR · QUIZZES · Vocabulary Quiz · Test your word power · Take the Quiz » · Name That ...
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Reddit
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r/grammar on Reddit: Is there any verb that goes before “logical fallacy”?
September 16, 2018 -

for example,

He engaged in a logical fallacy (ad hominem).

Or He used a logical fallacy (ad hominem).

Or He made a logical fallacy.

Does any verb go before "logical fallacy"?

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I looked up what verbs come before logical fallacy/fallacies in the iWeb Corpus. These were the most frequent verbs with logical fallacy/fallacies as the object that could have a similar meaning to you're asking about: commit, use, have, make, and base (presumably to be based on), engage, and contain. What is notable is that sometimes people choose to refer to the source rather than to the speaker/writer, which is why some of these verbs are frequent (i.e. based on, contain, have). If you want to do the search yourself, go to the link above, and in the search tab, click the + sign and select "collocates". Set the left side to 4 and the right side to 0. Then enter logical fallac* in the search box and _v* in the collocates box. If you click on Options and set Group By to Lemmas, then it will give you the base form of the words.
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Promoted, repeated, used, supported, argued, included, clung onto. I'm sure there are many more. Replace it with the word 'belief' or 'idea' and you'll find other verbs that make sense too. I would say 'engaged in' would be less correct, it implies that a fallacy is some sort of activity that you engage in. You can engage in a conversation or an argument, but you can't engage in a fallacy. Also 'made' implies that he created the fallacy, not necessarily that he is using it, although the difference is subtle. 'He made a logical fallacy and then used it to argue for....'. You 'make' a mistake because the mistake didn't exist before you created it, but a fallacy usually exists already and you just reuse it.
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Collins Dictionary
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FALLACY definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
Wall Street Journal (2023)It's a fallacy to assume that burglars can't climb a wall without a ladder.
Published   January 16, 2018
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Cambridge Dictionary
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fallacy collocations | Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
The all-too-common logical fallacy is to conclude that one causes the other without consideration of the possibility that both are determined by common external causes. ... In contrast, our commitment to the naturalistic fallacy is considerably ...
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YourDictionary
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Examples of "Fallacious" in a Sentence | YourDictionary.com
Along with countless persons of good will, one can state that this point of view is not only baneful but also completely fallacious. ... It rested on a mass of legal assumptions and subtleties, fallacious indeed, but ingenious, and, as the result proved, effective.
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Cambridge Dictionary
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LOGICAL FALLACY collocation | meaning and examples of use
He fell, and subsequent speakers have fallen, into a simple logical fallacy. ... Example from the Hansard archive.
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KidsKonnect
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Fallacy Examples, Definition and Worksheets | KidsKonnect
June 17, 2021 - Ad hominem is when the arguer attacks the speaker personally rather than counter the opponent’s argument. Appeals to emotion are just as they sound. In these fallacious arguments, the arguer tries to prove their argument by making the audience feel something rather than convincing them through logic.