Today’s word of the day is ‘Fallacy‘ Let us understand more about this word.
Fallacy [fal–uh-see]
What is this word’s grammar?
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
Does the word have a past tense? What is it?
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
1. Illusion
2. Misconception
3. Falsehood
4. Artifice
How is the word pronounced in popular languages?
1. Hindi – Hetvaabhaas
2. Spanish – Falacia
3. French – Erreur
4. Mandarin – Miùlùn
How to use this word in a sentence?
1. The big fallacy is that it assumes that everyone in the economy is dealing from the same deck of cards
2. How to avoid logical fallacies and critical-thinking fallacies?
3. It’s a planning fallacy based on screwy positive self-perception.
4. That wrong-headed mental blind spot, the planning fallacy, results in us not preparing sufficiently for contingencies and problems.
5. As much as marketers would like to control the narrative around their brands what they do so is a fallacy.
What are some synonyms of the word of the day?
Some synonyms of the word are:
deception, falsehood, misinterpretation, paradox, untruth, aberration, ambiguity, artifice, deceptiveness, deviation, delusion, error, misapprehension, miscalculation, notion, perversion, sophistry, etc.
What are some antonyms of the word of the day?
Some antonyms of the word are:
truth, accuracy, certainty, conformity, correction, honesty, meeting, openness, reality, fact, right, surety etc.
Quotation:
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig
Social Example:
– correlation 1 is non-significant
– correlation 2 is significantIt will often be claimed that there is a difference in these correlations, but this would be an example of the *interaction fallacy*. The difference of the two is non-significant: the 95% CI includes 0.#phdchat pic.twitter.com/1nmPI764kp
— Dr. Guy Prochilo 🏳️🌈 (@GuyProchilo) February 26, 2021
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