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deductive collapse: involving inferences from general principles; relating to logical deduction; "deductive reasoning"

specious collapse: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

ostensible collapse: represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"

alleged collapse: declared but not proved; "alleged abuses of housing benefits"- Wall Street Journal

hypocritical collapse: professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

nominal collapse: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"; insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture"; being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power; "nominal or face value"; pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"; relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; "the Russian system of nominal brevity"; "a nominal lists of priests"; "taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls"

purport collapse: have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming; "The letter purports to express people's opinion"

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