See fallacy on Wiktionary
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"text": "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.",
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"sense": "deceptive or false appearance",
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"sense": "deceptive or false appearance",
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"word": "błąd logiczny"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "deceptive or false appearance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ilusão"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "deceptive or false appearance",
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"code": "sh",
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"word": "مُغالطَہ"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "deceptive or false appearance",
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"code": "da",
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"code": "nl",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "false argument",
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"word": "lúb ar lár"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "false argument",
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"word": "fallacia"
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"alt": "ごびゅう",
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"word": "誤謬"
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"code": "ja",
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "false argument",
"word": "zabluda"
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"sense": "false argument",
"word": "kasinsayan"
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"word": "ตรรกวิบัติ"
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"lang": "Turkish",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.