Fallacy
Fallacy noun - A false idea or belief.
Right
Right noun - Something to which one has a just claim.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- The narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" mistakenly believes that this fallacy is right, although finds it hard to convince someone.
Source: Gambler's Fallacy - In other words, pointing out somebody's fallacy is not fallacious in itself (you're doing it right), but using this as "proof" that their claim is false is the Fallacy Fallacy.
Source: Fallacy Fallacy -
Compare and contrast with Intolerable Tolerance and Culture Justifies Anything, which commit the same fallacy from the opposite direction: saying that everyone is right instead of that everyone is wrong.
Source: Golden Mean Fallacy
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