In dictionaries:
naturalistic fallacy
Equating nature with moral goodness.
pathetic fallacy
Attributing human emotions to nature.
logical fallacy
Error in reasoning or argument.
intentional fallacy
Misattributing meaning to author's intent.
Ecological fallacy
An ecological fallacy (also ecological inference fallacy or population fallacy) is a formal fallacy in the interpretation of statistical data that occurs when inferences about the nature of individuals are deduced from inferences about the group to which those individuals belong.
genetic fallacy
A fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone's origin rather than its current meaning or context.
affective fallacy
a term from literary criticism used to refer to the supposed error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of its emotional effects on a reader.
formal fallacy
Logical error in argument structure.
informal fallacy
(logic) A fallacy whose error cannot be represented by the symbols used in formal logic.
linguistic fallacy
bandwagon fallacy
(logic) argumentum ad populum.
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