English Dictionary

fallacy

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfæləsi/

名詞

Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.

日本語の意味

欺瞞、虚偽の印象。見かけや印象が本来の真実や現実とは異なり、誤解を招く状態。 / 誤った外観、つまり見た目が真実を偽っている様子。

The polished presentation was a fallacy that hid the project's flaws.

あの洗練されたプレゼンテーションはプロジェクトの欠点を隠す見せかけだった。

意味（1）

Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.

Mr Jones expressed great gratitude to the lady for the kind intentions towards him which she had expressed, and indeed testified, by this proposal; but, besides intimating some diffidence of success from the lady’s knowledge of his love to her niece, which had not been her case in regard to Mr Fitzpatrick, he said, he was afraid Miss Western would never agree to an imposition of this kind, as well from her utter detestation of all fallacy as from her avowed duty to her aunt.

意味（2）

(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.

Baldridge also showed the one molecule of blood, usually held to be the stimulus for attracting sharks, to be another common fallacy, since a molecule of blood does not exist.

fallacies （ plural ）