Correct
Correct adjective - Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth.
Usage example: the correct answer
Fallacious is an antonym for correct.
Fallacious
Fallacious adjective - Not using or following good reasoning.
Both words in one sentence
- An argument using fallacious reasoning is capable of being consequentially correct.
Source: Fallacy Fallacy - Of course, a proposition may fallaciously be declared correct due to an argument against it fallaciously declaring it incorrect due to a particular argument for it being fallacious, thus committing the Fallacy Fallacy Fallacy.
Source: Fallacy Fallacy
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