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fallacious

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++fal·la·cious /fəˈleɪʃəs/ adjective formal  WRONG/INCORRECTcontaining or based on false ideas 谬误的,虚妄的 Such an argument is misleading, if not wholly fallacious. 这种论点即使不完全是谬误,也是误导人的。fallaciously adverb
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fallaciousIf we are to avoid this foundationalist conclusion we shall have to show that the regress argument is fallacious.Sometimes these views are based on reasoning that an economist would judge fallacious.Such a bill would be entirely fallacious.The either-or argument is of course as unfair as it is fallacious.Of course, continued Durieu, this is a fallacious approach.a fallacious argumentThis is fallacious, as a study of esoteric teachings soon makes clear.This development was usually formally fallacious, as the philosopher G. E. Moore pointed out.In these circumstances facile and fallacious deductions about the consequences of having abolished the death penalty were bound to be rife.
fal·la·cious adjectiveChineseSyllable
on Corpus false ideas based or containing


fallacious
fallacious /fəˈleɪʃəs/ adjective formal
containing or based on false ideas:
    Such an argument is misleading, if not wholly fallacious.
—fallaciously adverb


fal·la·ciousBrE /fəˈleɪʃəs/ 🔊NAmE /fəˈleɪʃəs/ 🔊 adjective (formal) wrong; based on a false idea 谬误的a fallacious argument谬误的论证