Both Uses of
fallacious
in
Leviathan
- Which kind of thoughts, is called Foresight, and Prudence, or Providence; and sometimes Wisdome; though such conjecture, through the difficulty of observing all circumstances, be very fallacious.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- CHAPTER XXV OF COUNSELL Counsell What How fallacious it is to judge of the nature of things, by the ordinary and inconstant use of words, appeareth in nothing more, than in the confusion of Counsels, and Commands, arising from the Imperative manner of speaking in them both, and in may other occasions besides.†
Chpt 2.25
Definition:
-
(fallacious) not correct
- typically describing something as mistaken due to incorrect information or belief
- sometimes describing something as an intentional lie