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Fallacy vs Conspiracy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fallacy and conspiracy

is that fallacy is deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception while conspiracy is the act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.

fallacy

English

(wikipedia fallacy)

Noun

(fallacies)
  • Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
  • (logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not. A specious argument.

    • Derived terms

    * logical fallacy * formal fallacy * informal fallacy

    Related terms

    * fail * fallacious * fallibilist * fallibilism * fallibility * fallible

    See also

    * sophism *

    External links

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    conspiracy

    English

    (wikipedia conspiracy)

    Noun

    (conspiracies)
  • The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
  • (legal) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
  • A group of ravens.
  • (linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.

    • Derived terms

    * conspiracy of silence * conspiracy theory

    Related terms

    * conspire * conspirator