FALLACIES Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

fallacies

noun

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plural of fallacy

as in myths

a false idea or belief the once-common fallacy that girls just weren't any good at math

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Recent Examples of fallacies Understanding vicious cycles and logical fallacies. —

Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026 While counting the president’s fallacies has become routine, the ideological subservience of his senior-most cabinet members and advisors this term has given the public reason to second-guess statements and data issued by them or their offices. —

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026 Rose pointed out that our decision-making, especially System 1 decision-making, is affected by cognitive biases and logical fallacies. —

Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2026 While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies. —

Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025 Such fallacies are utterly unacceptable anywhere…The Chinese military will continue to take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and firmly uphold regional peace and stability. —

Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025 Trying to pin down what a novelist actually believes is a sure way to get trapped in a labyrinth of misreadings and fallacies. —

Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025 And a world of fallacies underlies the President and his administration’s rejection of climate action. —

IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2017

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Noun

The myths of Gollum and Frankenstein are obviously massively influential in the narrative structure people are imposing on this.

— Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Like so many historical myths, this swashbuckling tale of pirates, court accusations, and gossip, which frames the rags-to-riches emergence of this American family, is rife with historical fiction.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 May 2026