English-Spanish translations for fallacy

• falacia
  La revolución del mundo árabe ha demostrado que esto es una falacia. The revolution in the Arab world has shown this to be a fallacy.
  El argumento ese de que estamos obligados a hacer esto por la crisis económica es una falacia. The argument that we are forced to do this by the economic crisis is a fallacy.
  No existen los contribuyentes netos; este concepto tan arraigado no es más que una falacia de malos contables. There are no net contributors; that hackneyed notion is merely a fallacy dreamt up by bad accountants.

Definition of fallacy

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

Related words

• logical fallacy
• genetic fallacy
• naive fallacy