fallacious+reasoning

  • 11fal|la´cious|ness — fal|la|cious «fuh LAY shuhs», adjective. 1. that causes disappointment; deceptive; misleading: »a fallacious peace. Yet how fallacious is all earthly bliss (William Cowper). SYNONYM(S): delusive, false. 2. logically unsound; erroneous: »It is… …

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  • 12fal|la´cious|ly — fal|la|cious «fuh LAY shuhs», adjective. 1. that causes disappointment; deceptive; misleading: »a fallacious peace. Yet how fallacious is all earthly bliss (William Cowper). SYNONYM(S): delusive, false. 2. logically unsound; erroneous: »It is… …

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  • 13fal|la|cious — «fuh LAY shuhs», adjective. 1. that causes disappointment; deceptive; misleading: »a fallacious peace. Yet how fallacious is all earthly bliss (William Cowper). SYNONYM(S): delusive, false. 2. logically unsound; erroneous: »It is fallacious …

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  • 14Paris arts faculty (The): Siger of Brabant, Boethius of Dacia, Radulphus Brito — The Paris arts faculty: Siger of Brabant, Boethius of Dacia, Radulphus Brito Sten Ebbesen Throughout the thirteenth century Paris overshadowed all other universities in the arts as in theology. This chapter will deal almost exclusively with Paris …

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  • 15Sophistry — Soph ist*ry, n. [OE. sophistrie, OF. sophisterie.] 1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. [1913 Webster] The juggle of sophistry… …

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  • 16Bertrand's box paradox — is a classic paradox of elementary probability theory. It was first posed by Joseph Bertrand in his Calcul des probabilités , published in 1889. There are three boxes: a box containing two gold coins, a box with two silver coins, and a box with… …

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  • 17sophistry — I noun casuistry, cavil, chicanery, deception, distortion, equivocation, evasion, evasive reasoning, fallacious reasoning, false logic, misrepresentation, specious reasoning II index casuistry, fallacy, non sequitur, subterfuge …

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  • 18sophistry — n. Paralogy, paralogism, fallacy, shift, cavil, chicane, trick, quibble, fetch, stratagem, false logic, fallacious reasoning, inconclusive reasoning, reasoning in a circle …

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  • 19paralogism — /pəˈrælədʒɪzəm/ (say puh raluhjizuhm) noun 1. a piece of false or fallacious reasoning, especially (distinguished from sophism) one of whose falseness the reasoner is not conscious. 2. reasoning of this kind. {Greek paralogismos false reasoning}… …

  • 20Randomness — Random redirects here. For other uses, see Random (disambiguation). For a random Wikipedia article, see Special:Random. For information about Wikipedia s random article feature, see Wikipedia:Random. Randomness has somewhat differing meanings as… …

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