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fallacy noun captio, deception, deceptive belief, delusion, deviation from truth, distortion, erroneous reaaoning, erroneousness, error, fallacious argument, false appearance, falseness, falsity, faultiness, faulty reasoning, flaw in reasoning, illusion, inaccuracy, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconception, misconstruction, misjudgment, misleading notion, mistake, mistaken idea, paralogism, sophism, sophistry, unsound arrument, vitium, worthless argument See also: invalidity, misjudgment, non sequitur How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Since the 1970s, however, the welfare industry has manoeuvered the public into acquiescing in a colossal expansion of the social welfare budget by building a massive structure of unexamined claims on a foundation of dubious premises and fallacious arguments. Supposedly, Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation and Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute "manufactured" a welfare crisis based on "shoddy statistics and fallacious arguments. If the enemies of civil justice had celebrated the millennium with a generous dose of truth serum, there might have been some explanation for recent revelations concerning the health of corporate America, which, to satisfy its own insatiable profit-seeking appetite, continues to promote utterly fallacious arguments on an array of tort "reform" bills in Congress. |
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