fallaciousness
111fallacious — [fə lā′shəs] adj. [L fallaciosus] 1. containing a fallacy; erroneous [fallacious reasoning] 2. a) misleading or deceptive b) causing disappointment; delusive fallaciously adv. fallaciousness n …
112fallacy — n. (pl. ies) 1 a mistaken belief, esp. based on unsound argument. 2 faulty reasoning; misleading or unsound argument. 3 Logic a flaw that vitiates an argument. Derivatives: fallacious adj. fallaciously adv. fallaciousness n. Etymology: L fallacia …
113invalidness — noun illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses • Syn: ↑invalidity • Derivationally related forms: ↑invalid, ↑invalid (for: ↑invalidity) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
114-acy — suffix forming nouns of state or quality (accuracy; piracy; supremacy), or an instance of it (conspiracy; fallacy) (see also CRACY). Etymology: a branch of the suffix CY from or after F acie or L acia or atia or Gk ateia * * * a suffix of nouns… …
115FRIEDLAENDER (Friedland), SOLOMON JUDAH — (c. 1860–c. 1923), author and literary forger. Friedlaender gave contradictory biographical accounts of his life, claiming at various times to have been born in Hungary, Turkey, and Romania, but in all probability he was born in Beshenkovichi… …
