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Of or relating to this kind of fallacious objection.
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(art) An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.
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Failure to obey logic; fallacious thinking or reasoning.
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(logic) A false syllogism in which two premises contradict the third
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The informal fallacy of evaluating a population based only on its apex, its best members.
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(logic) The state of being apodictic
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(logic) A type of fallacious argument in which the attempt is made to refute a theory or belief by discrediting the person(s) who advocate that theory or belief; an ad hominem argument.
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A fallacious argument asserting that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false, or vice versa.
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The informal fallacy of dismissing an argument as untrue or absurd without explaining why.
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(rhetoric, rare) An appeal to poverty; the logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the speaker is poor.
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(rhetoric) The false proof of a statement by (prolonged) repetition, possibly by different people.
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Self-evident or unquestionable. [from 18th c.]
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(logic) argumentum ad populum.
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A common error in logical reasoning where an effect is attributed to an incorrect cause because the basic statistical ratios have not been taken into account.
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The logical error of discounting the possibility of something based on limited past experience (i.e. lack of contradictory evidence), an argument from ignorance.
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A type of fallacy from making an inductive conclusion with insufficient evidence; a kind of faulty generalization; underpowered generalization
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The fallacy of reason which deals with secondary questions about ideas rather than the primary one, thus avoiding the basic question or evading the issues raised by trains of reasoning.
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(uncountable, sometimes hyphenated) Chopped logic: reasoning which is improper; sophistry.
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Alternative spelling of chop logic [(of an argument, sometimes hyphenated) Characterized by equivocation or by overly complex or specious argumentation; improperly reasoned.]
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Alternative spelling of chop logic [(uncountable, sometimes hyphenated) Chopped logic: reasoning which is improper; sophistry.]
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Reasoning which is improper; sophistry.
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(philosophy, logic) An argument which commits the logical fallacy of assuming what it is attempting to prove.
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A fallacy due to a misunderstanding or misapplication of concepts, or of the relationships between concepts.
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(logic) Either of a pair of propositions, that cannot both be true or both be false.
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(logic) The original proposition involved in a contraposition.
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(countable, logic) The statement of the form "if not Q then not P", given the statement "if P then Q".
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(logic) One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true, though they may both be false.
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(linguistics, philosophy) A conditional statement in which the conditional clause is false.
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(logic) A proof that contradicts a given statement.
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A paradox that occurs in naive set theory or naive logics, and allows the derivation of an arbitrary sentence from a self-referring sentence and some apparently innocuous logical deduction rules.
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(logic, rhetoric) Mentioning a balancing or opposing fact to prevent the argument from being one-sided or unqualified.
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(logic) an informal fallacy. It is committed when someone asks a question that touches upon more than one issue, yet allows only for one answer.
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(rhetoric, logic) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner.
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(logic) The formal fallacy of inferring that if an argument contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
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A presumption that if something is true of part(s) of a whole, then it is true of the whole itself.
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(logic) An informal fallacy applying to inductive arguments, in which the similarity in one respect of two concepts, objects, or events is taken as sufficient to establish that they are similar in another respect in which they actually are dissimilar.
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A logical fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning.
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(logic) Having a false basis.
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(logic) An arbitrary contradiction, denoted ⊥.
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(programming) Evaluating to false in a Boolean context.
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(logic) A pattern of reasoning which is always wrong, due to a flaw in the structure of the argument.
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A fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone's origin rather than its current meaning or context.
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(grammar) Of an adjective, not describing itself.
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An informal fallacy whereby a concept is explained in terms of the concept itself, recursively.
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The fallacy of presenting an argument that may or may not be logically valid, but fails to address the issue in question.
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(logic) An incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true.
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(logic) A fallacy whose error cannot be represented by the symbols used in formal logic.
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An obvious, self-evident truth, especially humorously so; a tautology or truism.
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(logic) Synonym of law of noncontradiction
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Alternative spelling of law of noncontradiction [(logic) The principle that no statement may be simultaneously true and false at the same time and in the same sense.]
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(logic) The principle that no statement may be simultaneously true and false at the same time and in the same sense.
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Alternative form of logical fallacy [A fallacy; a clearly defined error in reasoning used to support or refute an argument, excluding simple unintended mistakes.]
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A fallacy of inferring that since one knows (or does not know) something by one description, one must know (or not know) it by another, as in "I know who my father is. I do not know who the masked man is. Therefore, my father is not the masked man."
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Any attempt to define "good" verbally, instead of treating it as an undefined term, in terms of which other terms are defined.
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A fallacious judgment that, because a premise cannot be proven true, that premise must be false.
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The logical fallacy of attempting to retain an unreasoned assertion by excluding the case given in a counterexample, as in: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge." "I am Scottish, and I put sugar on my porridge." "Well, no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
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A statement which is logically not a contradiction.
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(logic) The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.
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(logic) Dealing with contradictions in a discriminating way, in order to avoid acceptance of one from entailing acceptance of all contradictions.
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A fallacious argument or illogical conclusion, especially one committed by mistake, or believed by the speaker to be logical.
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An instance of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, in which temporal order is confused with causation.
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(mathematics, logic) Proof of a statement adduced by deriving a contradiction from the statement's negation.
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fallacious argument, incorrect argument
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False logic. A logical argument that deliberately omits an outcome so that a false conclusion is reached.
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The (fallacious) conclusion that the fact that Adolf Hitler had a particular idea or quality is sufficient proof that the idea is wrong or the property is bad.
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Alternative form of reductio ad absurdum [(mathematics, logic) The method of disproving a statement by assuming the statement is true and, with that assumption, arriving at a blatant contradiction.]
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(logic) A statement that contains a contradiction, or a premise from which one could be derived
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(logic, rhetoric) A series of propositions whereby each conclusion is taken as the subject of the next.
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(logic) Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
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(obsolete) A trick, artifice; an extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument; a sophism.
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(logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
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The fallacy of ignoring differences in data while stressing the similarities.
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