A piece of ribbon worn as a streamer. / Any trifling ornament.

A presumption that if something is true of part(s) of a whole, then it is true of the whole itself.

A fallacy of inferring that since one knows (or does not know) something by one description, one must know (or not know) it by another, as in "I know who my father is. I do not know who the masked man is. Therefore, my father is not the masked man."

The logical fallacy of attempting to retain an unreasoned assertion by excluding the case given in a counterexample, as in: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge." "I am Scottish, and I put sugar on my porridge." "Well, no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

Used to imply the decline of a once-great person or entity.

Synonym of Monte Carlo fallacy

plural of fallaway

past participle of fall ill

past participle of fall on hard times

past participle of free-fall