FALLACY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for FALLACY, such as:

1. It is a fallacy to say that the camera never lies.
2. His incisive remarks made us see the fallacy in our plans.
3. This particular logical fallacy is called 'circular definition'.
4. This was small consolation, but Miss Mills wouldn't encourage fallacious hopes.
5. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth.

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 Meanings and Examples of FALLACY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fallacy
 n.  deceptive or false appearance; false notion; deception
Classic Sentence:
1  Whenever she was restless she dodged her thoughts by the familiar vagabond fallacy of running away from them, of moving on to a new place, and thus she persuaded herself that she was tranquil.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  He exposed their risk and fallacy with his usual skill; and it was only after he had removed every impediment, in the shape of opposing advice, that he ventured to propose his own projects.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
3  This was small consolation, but Miss Mills wouldn't encourage fallacious hopes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
4  And equally fallacious seems the conceit, that because the so-called whale-bone whales no longer haunt many grounds in former years abounding with them, hence that species also is declining.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
5  When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
Example Sentence:
1  This particular logical fallacy is called 'circular definition'.
2  His incisive remarks made us see the fallacy in our plans.
3  It is a fallacy to say that the camera never lies.
4  Paradoxically, fallacious reasoning does not always yield erroneous results: even though your logic may be faulty, the answer you get may nevertheless be correct.