- Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which
misleads the eye or the mind; deception. - An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be
decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
Psychologist's fallacy Where a psychologist reads into someone else's mind what is present in his own that is psychologist's fallacy.
Base Rate Fallacy Base Rate Fallacy tendency to ignore or underutilize information relating to base rates-the relative frequency with which events or stimuli actually