Both Uses of
fallacious
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- It seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the nomenclature employed in its selenographical charts as attributable to verifiable intuition as to fallacious analogy: the lake of dreams, the sea of rains, the gulf of dews, the ocean of fecundity.†
Chpt 17 *
- …frangibility of the hymen: the presupposed intangibility of the thing in itself: the incongruity and disproportion between the selfprolonging tension of the thing proposed to be done and the selfabbreviating relaxation of the thing done; the fallaciously inferred debility of the female: the muscularity of the male: the variations of ethical codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving no alteration of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as masculine…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
-
(fallacious) not correct
- typically describing something as mistaken due to incorrect information or belief
- sometimes describing something as an intentional lie