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Inanity vs Fallacy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between inanity and fallacy

is that inanity is (uncountable) the property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness while fallacy is deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.

inanity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
  • Something that is inane.
    • Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.

    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 *

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