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Fallacy vs Hallucination - What's the difference?

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Fallacy is a related term of hallucination.


As nouns the difference between fallacy and hallucination

is that fallacy is deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception while hallucination is a sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.

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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    hallucination

    English

    (wikipedia hallucination)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.
  • :* Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. -
  • The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
  • :* This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. -