different between fallibility vs fallacy

English

Etymology

fallible +? -ity

Noun

fallibility (countable and uncountable, plural fallibilities)

1. The state of being prone to error.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 2:

     ...they had a damnably suggestive power which was intensified by the fact of their being genuine photographs—actual optical links with what they portrayed, and the product of an impersonal transmitting process without prejudice, fallibility, or mendacity.

2. (countable) An error-generating characteristic.

Antonyms

• infallibility

Translations

Anagrams

• fillability

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French fallace, from Latin fallacia (“deception, deceit”), from fallax (“deceptive, deceitful”), from fallere (“to deceive”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fæl?si/

Noun

fallacy (plural fallacies)

1. Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.

   • Mr Jones expressed great gratitude to the lady for the kind intentions towards him which she had expressed, and indeed testified, by this proposal; but, besides intimating some diffidence of success from the lady’s knowledge of his love to her niece, which had not been her case in regard to Mr Fitzpatrick, he said, he was afraid Miss Western would never agree to an imposition of this kind, as well from her utter detestation of all fallacy as from her avowed duty to her aunt.

   Synonyms: deception, deceitfulness

2. (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

• fallacious

Related terms

• fail
• fallible
• logical fallacy
• formal fallacy
• informal fallacy
• pathetic fallacy

Translations

See also

• sophism
• Appendix:Glossary of fallacies

Further reading

• fallacy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fallacy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fallacy at OneLook Dictionary Search