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What is the noun for fallacy?

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fail
  1. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
  2. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)
  3. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success)
  4. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
  5. A failing grade in an academic examination.
  6. Synonyms:
failure
  1. State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
  2. An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
  3. Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Every one of your harebrained schemes has been an abject failure.”
      “I feel like a failure after giving in to my weakness for ice-cream.”
      “Arthur used his failure as a lesson from which to learn from.”
fallacy
  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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  4. Examples:
    1. “As long as the belief in progress reigned supreme people could not see this fallacy in the theory of evolution by natural selection.”
      “The whole idea that the entire country took to arms with pitchforks and scythes is also a fallacy.”
      “The accent fallacy is a fallacy of ambiguity due to the different ways a word is emphasized or accented.”
fallibility
  1. The state of being prone to error.
  2. (countable) An error-generating characteristic.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “But the guarded apology and the honest admission of fallibility were important signals nonetheless.”
      “And he acknowledges his own fallibility, the fact that he is part of the problem, in need of radical reform, dangerously prone to evil.”
      “The error is only further testimony to human fallibility, however, in the process of discerning the guilty from the innocent.”
failover
  1. (computing) An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “During the power outage, the failover seamlessly transferred the critical server's operations to the redundant backup system.”
      “They also offer failover mechanisms, such as redundant hot-swap robotics, power supplies and drives.”
      “A primary path failure does not necessarily cause loss of connection unless path failover software is either not implemented or malfunctions.”
fallibilism
  1. The doctrine that knowledge is never certain, but always hypothetical and susceptible to correction.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Taking fallibilism seriously heads off the charge that contextualism encourages strongly anti-rationalist positions such as relativism.”
      “Focusing on the epistemic responsibility aspect of justification inclines us to fallibilism about knowledge.”
      “According to Peirce's doctrine of fallibilism, the conclusions of science are always tentative.”
failance
  1. (obsolete) fault; failure; omission
fallibilist
  1. An advocate or supporter of fallibilism
  2. Examples:
    1. “Humility is not, however, achieved by acclamation, and something other than humility may be at work in fallibilist argumentation.”
      “Viewing knowledge as a tool for enriching experience, pragmatism tends to be pluralistic, experimental, fallibilist, and naturalistic.”
      “Under the pressure of Stoic objections to his fallibilist epistemology Philo apparently made some controversial innovations in Academic philosophy.”
fallaciousness
  1. The property of being fallacious.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Is it necessary to spend time in exhibiting the folly and fallaciousness of this first principle?”
      “I told him there were two kinds of persons, the fallaciousness of whose promises had become proverbial in the world.”
      “The poet, whose name is Deor, has experienced the fallaciousness of early success.”
failing
fallibleness
  1. The quality of being fallible
fail
failer
  1. One who fails.
fallibilisms
  1. plural of fallibilism
fallibilists
  1. plural of fallibilist
fallibilities
failovers
failances
  1. plural of failance
failings
  1. plural of failing
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Massive write downs under the smokescreen of a new CEO will only demonstrate the old guard's failings and bring their tenure into question.”
      “Witty and polished, the film takes a jocular view of the characters and their failings but doesn't judge events.”
      “But the sheer scale of the failings that have come to light recently mean that suspicion and wariness will not vanish so easily this time around.”
failures
  1. plural of failure
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “However limited, this success clearly trumps the failures of the more command-oriented policies.”
      “These two failures suggest a degree of arbitrariness in the Foster range tests.”
      “He flourished in a moment of transition, and his failures measured the limitations of ideas loosely held.”
fallacies
  1. plural of fallacy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I didn't discover the fallacies in those beliefs, but whoever did made some Great Discoveries.”
      “He recommended that special attention be given to the refutation of these fallacies.”
      “The difference being that the missionaries were spreading good, while today's collectivists are pushing fallacies.”
failers
  1. plural of failer
  2. Examples:
    1. “While God is disciplining me and humbling me, He is also showing me His great love for failers.”
fails
  1. plural of fail
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