- 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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contain fallacies.
Because of
their variety,
fallacies are
challenging to classify. They can be
classified by
their structure (formal
fallacies) or content...
- In
logic and philosophy, a
formal fallacy is a
pattern of
reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its
logical structure.
Propositional logic, for example...
-
number of
informal fallacies have been identified,
including the
fallacy of equivocation, the
fallacy of amphiboly, the
fallacies of
composition and division...
- A
straw man
fallacy (sometimes
written as strawman) is the
informal fallacy of re****ing an
argument different from the one
actually under discussion,...
- The gambler's
fallacy, also
known as the
Monte Carlo fallacy or the
fallacy of the
maturity of chances, is the
belief that, if an
event (whose occurrences...
- The
fallacy of
composition is an
informal fallacy that
arises when one
infers that
something is true of the
whole from the fact that it is true of some...
- No true
Scotsman or
appeal to
purity is an
informal fallacy in
which one
modifies a
prior claim in
response to a
counterexample by ****erting the counterexample...
- binary, is an
informal fallacy based on a
premise that
erroneously limits what
options are available. The
source of the
fallacy lies not in an invalid...
- The
definist fallacy (sometimes
called the
Socratic fallacy,
after Socrates) is a
logical fallacy,
identified by
William Frankena in 1939, that involves...
