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not correct
- typically describing something as mistaken due to incorrect information or belief
- sometimes describing something as an intentional lie
- And equally fallacious seems the conceit, that because the so-called whale-bone whales no longer haunt many grounds in former years abounding with them, hence that species also is declining.Chapters 103-105 -- Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton; The Fossil Whale; Does the Whale Diminish (85% in)
fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)
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