fallible vs fallacious
Definitions
adjective
- likely to fail or make errors
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
Examples
Sand is commonly met with at the depth of three or four fathoms, and beneath this a stratum of napal or steatite, which is considered as a sign that the metal is near; but the least fallible mark is a red stone, called batu kawi, lying in detached pieces.
Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
The notorious fact-checkers of The New Yorker are irritating not only because they often prove how fallible are our memories, but because they seem to mechanize what ought to be a natural, unmediated, fast-moving process.
Definitions
adjective
- containing or based on a fallacy
- based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information
- intended to deceive
Examples
And because you were not going rock again, you assumed, fallaciously, that I would not go paper again, which, to your mind, left me with rock or scissors.
Australia coasted to victory in the first Test at Lord's but it was fallacious.
In these circumstances facile and fallacious deductions about the consequences of having abolished the death penalty were bound to be rife.
