called argument to logic (argumentum ad logicam), the fallacy fallacy, the fallacist's fallacy, and the bad reasons fallacy. An argument from fallacy has...
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Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam)—also known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground...
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first-order logic, this type of fallacy can be expressed as (∃x ∈ S : φ(x)) ⇒ (∀x ∈ S : φ(x)). The fallacy in the argument can be illustrated through the...
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The genetic fallacy (also known as the fallacy of origins or fallacy of virtue) is a fallacy of irrelevance in which arguments or information are dismissed...
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Sophistical Refutations or Hamblin's book Fallacies, but both of these texts discuss the somewhat similar case of argument from ignorance. Errietta Bissa, professor...
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Informal fallacies are a type of incorrect argument in natural language. The source of the error is not just due to the form of the argument, as is the...
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An argument from anecdote is an informal logical fallacy, when an anecdote is used to draw an improper logical conclusion. The fallacy can take many forms...
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argument would seem to agree with polytheism. A false analogy is an informal fallacy, or a faulty instance, of the argument from analogy. An argument...
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A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument. All forms of human communication can contain fallacies...
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A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The...
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Argument from incredulity, also known as argument from personal incredulity, appeal to common sense, or the divine fallacy, is a fallacy in informal logic...
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An etymological fallacy is an argument of equivocation, arguing that a word is defined by its etymology, and that its customary usage is therefore incorrect...
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Slippery slope (redirect from Logical fallacy/Slippery slope)
slope arguments are normally discussed as a form of fallacy, although there may be an acknowledgement that non-fallacious forms of the argument can also...
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The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions...
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deductive argument that is invalid. The argument itself could have true premises, but still have a false conclusion. Thus, a formal fallacy is a fallacy in which...
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The relativist fallacy, also known as the subjectivist fallacy, is claiming that something is true for one person but not true for someone else, when...
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effect a specific goal, the fallacy appears in an argument that states this must be the case. The name of the fallacy comes from the animistic belief that...
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The invincible ignorance fallacy, also known as argument by pigheadedness, is a deductive fallacy of circularity where the person in question simply refuses...
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masked-man fallacy (also known as the intensional fallacy or epistemic fallacy) is committed when one makes an illicit use of Leibniz's law in an argument. Leibniz's...
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practices with the argument that they are natural; moralistic fallacy if the user wants to combat existing social practices with the argument of denying that...
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people with knives. Therefore, surgeons are criminals. The argument is committing the fallacy of accident because it erroneously generalizes a specific...
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Argumentum ad populum (redirect from Argument from common consent)
names for the fallacy include: appeal to (common) belief appeal to popularity appeal to the majority appeal to the masses argument from consensus authority...
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Appeal to tradition (redirect from Argument from tradition)
novelty Argument from authority Argument to moderation Common sense Conservatism Herd mentality Inductive reasoning List of logical fallacies Precedent...
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Argument from ignorance (Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), or appeal to ignorance, is an informal fallacy where something is claimed to be true or false...
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Straw man (redirect from Logical fallacy/Straw Man)
A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while...
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Irrelevant conclusion (redirect from Logical fallacy/Ignoratio elenchi)
informal fallacy of presenting an argument whose conclusion fails to address the issue in question. It falls into the broad class of relevance fallacies. The...
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fallacy is here slightly different from the logical fallacy. The latter usually applies to a form of argument that does not comply with the valid inference...
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The fallacy of the undistributed middle (Latin: non distributio medii) is a formal fallacy that is committed when the middle term in a categorical syllogism...
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Appeal to consequences (redirect from Argument from consequences)
thinking "Fallacy: Appeal to Consequences of a Belief". www.nizkor.org. Archived from the original on 2019-12-22. Retrieved 2016-10-29. "Logical Fallacy: Appeal...
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Cherry picking (redirect from Incomplete evidence (fallacy))
written: The one-sidedness fallacy does not make an argument invalid. It may not even make the argument unsound. The fallacy consists in persuading readers...
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