fallacy

IPA: fˈæɫʌsi

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

Examples of "fallacy" in Sentences

A subset of this fallacy is the pervasive view that securities trading is a zero-sum game.
The main fallacy is that the tax does not acknowledge the largely static nature of short term energy demand.
When you say it like that, the fallacy is almost self-evident; we hardly need spell out the reductio ad absurdum.
Franken also talks about what he calls the fallacy of liberal bias in the media which is interesting given my recent blog posts about that very issue.
The worst of the fallacy is the assumption that “worth” means only economic value, without any other factor interfering, and, as you note, that “worth” based on economic value in the current cultural environment somehow trumps any other consideration.
The most common manifestation of this fallacy is the assumption that the artist begins with material that has already a recognized status, moral, philosophic, historical, or whatever, and then renders it more palatable by emotional seasoning and imaginative dressing.