counterfallacy

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noun

A fallacy that opposes another fallacy.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nouncounterfallacy (plural counterfallacies)

plural counterfallacies

  1. A fallacy that opposes another fallacy.
    1 more example

    Beyond that, to the assertion of white southerners that the blacks who toiled in their fields were satisfied and happy, many observers simply posed the counterfallacy that all southern blacks were hopelessly, totally, and eternally alienated from the place where they had seen so much injustice and hardship.

    1999, James Charles Cobb, Redefining Southern Culture, page 127

Origin

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APA

counterfallacy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterfallacy

MLA

“counterfallacy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterfallacy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counterfallacy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterfallacy.

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