All 4 Uses of
fallacy
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- He bethought himself of course that it had been a small kindness to his father to wish that, of the two, the active rather than the passive party should know the felt wound; he remembered that the old man had always treated his own forecast of an early end as a clever fallacy, which he should be delighted to discredit so far as he might by dying first.†
Chpt 7fallacy = a mistaken belief; or a common form of incorrect reasoning
- She liked him too much to marry him, that was the truth; something assured her there was a fallacy somewhere in the glowing logic of the proposition—as he saw it—even though she mightn't put her very finest finger-point on it; and to inflict upon a man who offered so much a wife with a tendency to criticise would be a peculiarly discreditable act.†
Chpt 12
- He knew how good he was, and if such a fallacy had not been so pernicious he could have laughed at it.†
Chpt 37
- At present, however, she neither taunted him with his fallacies nor pretended that her own confidence was justified; if she wore a mask it completely covered her face.†
Chpt 39 *fallacies = mistaken beliefs; or common forms of incorrect reasoning