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FALLACY

Volume 2 · 49 words · 1771 Edition

a deception, fraud, or false appearance.

The Epicureans deny that there is any such thing as a fallacy of the senses: for, according to them, all our sensations and perceptions, both of sense and phantasy, are true: whence they make sense the primary criterion of truth.

FALLING-sickness. See MEDICINE.