- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
regression (or regressive)
fallacy is an
informal fallacy. It ****umes that
something has
returned to
normal because of
corrective actions taken while...
- The
nirvana fallacy is the
informal fallacy of
comparing actual things with unrealistic,
idealized alternatives. It can also
refer to the
tendency to...
- The
definist fallacy (sometimes
called the
Socratic fallacy,
after Socrates) is a
logical fallacy,
identified by
William Frankena in 1939, that involves...
-
number of
informal fallacies have been identified,
including the
fallacy of equivocation, the
fallacy of amphiboly, the
fallacies of
composition and division...
- An
etymological fallacy is an
argument of equivocation,
arguing that a word is
defined by its etymology, and that at
least one of its
customary usages...
