The Only Use of
fallacy
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(fallacy) a mistaken belief; or a common form of incorrect reasoning