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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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They show how the mereological fallacy besets thinking in such different domains as perception, binding, memory, imagery, emotion, and volition.
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.
Under the new regime, the stereotypically dour Aberdonian demeanour has been proved something of a fallacy.
In other words, the idea that physical principles are those we think of in terms of a Cartesian manifold, is a fallacy.
Surely, they do not mean to do that, because such an argument is a logical fallacy.
The reason this inference amounts to a logical fallacy is that it is just a blatant non sequitur.

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