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- Ad hominem (redirect from Logical fallacy/Ad Hominem)categorized among informal fallacies, more precisely as a genetic fallacy, a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance. Ad hominem fallacies can be separated into...22 KB (2,918 words) - 11:52, 16 April 2024
- 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,...20 KB (2,561 words) - 14:09, 28 March 2024
- False dilemma (redirect from Logical fallacy/False dilemma)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...16 KB (2,057 words) - 09:38, 31 March 2024
- contain fallacies. Because of their variety, fallacies are challenging to classify. They can be classified by their structure (formal fallacies) or content...67 KB (6,969 words) - 22:02, 11 April 2024
- Red herring (redirect from Red herring (fallacy))distracts from a relevant or important question. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion...19 KB (2,206 words) - 12:37, 20 April 2024
- In logic and philosophy, a formal fallacy, deductive fallacy, logical fallacy or non sequitur (/ˌnɒn ˈsɛkwɪtər/; Latin for 'it does not follow') is a...20 KB (2,816 words) - 15:16, 11 April 2024
- Argumentum ad populum (redirect from Bandwagon fallacy)argument from consensus authority of the many bandwagon fallacy common belief fallacy democratic fallacy mob appeal[citation needed] truth by association consensus...14 KB (1,609 words) - 14:37, 4 March 2024
- 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...47 KB (5,578 words) - 23:03, 17 March 2024
- Cherry picking (redirect from Incomplete evidence (fallacy))Cherry picking, suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a...15 KB (1,754 words) - 16:07, 12 April 2024
- No true Scotsman (redirect from Logical fallacy/No true Scotsman)No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect an a posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by...7 KB (872 words) - 15:23, 16 April 2024
- questionable-cause logical fallacy, in which two events occurring together are taken to have established a cause-and-effect relationship. This fallacy is also known...27 KB (3,427 words) - 12:34, 13 March 2024
- Begging the question (redirect from Fallacy of Circular Reasoning)question or assuming the conclusion (Latin: petītiō principiī) is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion...26 KB (3,279 words) - 14:14, 23 April 2024
- Argument from authority (redirect from Logical fallacy/Appeal to Authority)argument. The argument from authority is a logical fallacy (also known as ad verecundiam fallacy), and obtaining knowledge in this way is fallible. However...26 KB (2,778 words) - 04:21, 11 April 2024
- Slippery slope (redirect from Logical fallacy/Slippery slope)this is called the slippery slope fallacy. This is a type of informal fallacy, and is a subset of continuum fallacy, in that it ignores the possibility...24 KB (3,060 words) - 21:31, 20 April 2024
- Argument from ignorance (redirect from Logical fallacy/Lack of imagination)ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has...9 KB (1,032 words) - 09:00, 21 April 2024
- The association fallacy is a formal logical fallacy that asserts that properties of one thing must also be properties of another thing, if both things...8 KB (872 words) - 17:49, 3 February 2024
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc (redirect from Logical fallacy/Post hoc)informal fallacy that states: "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X." It is often shortened simply to post hoc fallacy. A...5 KB (622 words) - 23:42, 20 January 2024
- 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...9 KB (1,008 words) - 06:45, 19 March 2024
- In philosophical ethics, the naturalistic fallacy is the claim that it is possible to define good in terms of natural entities, or properties such as...19 KB (2,531 words) - 02:32, 4 December 2023
- Tu quoque (redirect from Logical fallacy/Ad hominem tu quoque)About Tu Quoque as a Fallacy". Informal Logic. 3 (3). University of Windsor: 2–4. Shapiro, Irving David (January 2011). "Fallacies of Logic: Argumentation...7 KB (788 words) - 22:15, 30 March 2024
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- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10 Fallacy 6150521911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10 — Fallacy FALLACY (Lat. fall-ax, apt to mislead), the term
- Fallacy is an error in reasoning that does not originate in improper logical form. Arguments committing informal fallacies may be formally valid, but still