fallacious assumption

collocation in English

meaningsoffallaciousandassumption

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fallacious
adjective
uk
/fəˈleɪ.ʃəs/us
/fəˈleɪ.ʃəs/
not ...
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assumption
noun
uk
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition offallaciousandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffallacious assumption

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It is also based on a somewhatfallaciousassumption.
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We all know that that is afallaciousassumption.
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But that is afallaciousassumptionbecause in the year concerned large transfer payments in social security were involved.
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It is based on thefallaciousassumptionthat if a group of people agree on one thing they must necessarily agree on everything else.
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The second is thefallaciousassumptionthat a transport undertaking making a profit on its own account is necessarily serving the best national interest.
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The other equallyfallaciousassumptionis that men and women want to do the same things.
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That is afallaciousassumption.
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Those who think otherwise feed the fallacious assumptions of superiority from some arbitrary distension.
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Most of the arguments in favour of broadcasting seem to be based on fallacious assumptions.
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I am not a believer in any economic theory, knowing the fallacious assumptions upon which most of those theories are built.
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