Syn. — Deception; deceit; mistake. — Fallacy, Sophistry. A fallacy is an argument which professes to be decisive, but in reality is not; sophistry is also false reasoning, but of so specious and subtle a kind as to render it difficult to expose its fallacy. Many fallacies are obvious, but the evil of sophistry lies in its consummate art. "Men are apt to suffer their minds to be misled by fallacies which gratify their passions. Many persons have obscured and confounded the nature of things by their wretched sophistry; though an act be never so sinful, they will strip it of its guilt." South.
FALLALS; FAL-LALS
Fal"*lals`, n.pl.
Defn: Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
FALLAX
Fal"lax, n. Etym: [L. fallax deceptive. See Fallacy.]
Defn: Cavillation; a caviling. [Obs.] Cranmer.
FALLEN
Fall"en, a.
Defn: Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
FALLENCY
Fal"len*cy, n. Etym: [LL. fallentia, L. fallens p.pr of fallere.]
Defn: An exception. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
FALLER
Fall"er, n.