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a false idea or belief<the possibility of a perpetual motion machine is one falsehood that has been disproved by modern physics>— see fallacy 1
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a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive<several falsehoods in the witnessʼs testimony that may be grounds for perjury>— see lie
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