Fallacy vs. Contradiction

Fallacynoun

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

Contradictionnoun

The act of contradicting.

‘His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.’;

Fallacynoun

(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.

Contradictionnoun

(countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that makes a claim that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.

‘There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion, and at the same time she should not have that right.’; ‘There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single.’;

Fallacynoun

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

‘Winning by conquest what the first man lost,By fallacy surprised.’;

Contradictionnoun

(countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.

Fallacynoun

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

Contradictionnoun

A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.

Fallacynoun

a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

Contradictionnoun

An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.

‘His fair demandsShall be accomplished without contradiction.’;

Fallacy

A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or in the construction of an argument. A fallacious argument may be deceptive by appearing to be better than it really is.

‘wrong moves’;

Contradictionnoun

Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.

‘can he make deathless death? That were to makeStrange contradiction.’; ‘We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it.’; ‘Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true.’; ‘Of contradictions infinite the slave.’;

Contradictionnoun

opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas

Contradictionnoun

(logic) a statement that is necessarily false;

‘the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction’;

Contradictionnoun

the speech act of contradicting someone;

‘he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction’;

Contradiction

In traditional logic, a contradiction occurs when a proposition conflicts either with itself or established fact. It is often used as a tool to detect disingenuous beliefs and bias.