counterfallacy

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ fallacy

Noun

counterfallacy (plural counterfallacies)

  1. A fallacy that opposes another fallacy.
    • 1999, James Charles Cobb, Redefining Southern Culture, page 127:
      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.
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