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What is a fallacy?

What is a fallacy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind
  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.
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To believe you have control over the players, the refs or the game is a fallacy.
The argument is said to commit the fallacy of Illicit Process of the Major Term.
Surely, they do not mean to do that, because such an argument is a logical fallacy.
And it is simply a fallacy to say that the only way people can achieve is when there is absolutely no bias whatsoever against them.
The whole idea that the entire country took to arms with pitchforks and scythes is also a fallacy.
Under the new regime, the stereotypically dour Aberdonian demeanour has been proved something of a fallacy.

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