Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.
An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.
The state of being deceived or misled.
A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
A magician’s trick.