1) Big Ben is a clock, e,g 2) Delusion 3) Delusional idea 4) Erroneous belief 5) Error 6) False belief 7) False impression 8) Flawed premise 9) Hole in the argument 10) Incorrect notion 11) Misapprehension 12) Misconception 13) Misconstruction 14) Misleading argument 15) Misreading 16) Mistaken belief
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1) Error 2) Idolum 3) Paralogism 4) Pseudoscience 5) Sophism 6) Sophistry 7) Speciousness
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A fallacy is an argument that uses poor reasoning. An argument can be fallacious whether or not its conclusion is true. A fallacy can be either formal or informal. An error that stems from a poor logical form is sometimes called a formal fallacy or simply an invalid argument. An informal fallacy is an error in reasoning that does not originate in ...
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a mistake in the formal* structure of an argument used to draw a conclusion based on some evidence. A fallacious argument may appear to prove something that is not actually true. Aristotle was the first to give a systematic* account of the various types of logical* fallacies.
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• (n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. • (n.) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
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in logic, erroneous reasoning that has the appearance of soundness. Among numerous types of logical fallacies that have been noted, some of the ... [6 related articles]
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In philosophy, a type of mistake in reasoning or inference (deduction or conclusion drawn from what has been implied). In Aristotelian logic (
syllogism) and in modern...
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Fal'la·cy (făl'lȧ*sȳ)
noun ;
plural Fallacies (- sĭz). [ Middle English
fallace ,
fallas , deception, French
fallace , from Latin
fallacia , from
fallax deceitful, deceptive, from
fallere to deceive. See
Fail ...
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any sort of mistake in reasoning or inference (essentially, anything that causes an argument to go wrong).
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In logic, a fallacy is when an argument is used as decisive of a particular issue, which in reality it does not decide. Properly a fallacy is a fault in the form of reasoning, but the term is applied also to faults in the substance of the argument such as the petitio principii, or proving one proposition by assuming another which is identical with ...
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[
n] - a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
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false belief noun a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
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is any unsound step or process of reasoning, especially one which has a deceptive appearance of soundness or is falsely accepted as sound. The unsoundness may consist either in a mistake of formal logic, or in the suppression of a premiss whose unacceptability might have been recognized if it had been stated, or in a lack of genuine adaptation of ....
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A fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. A fallacious ARGUMENT is not a VALID argument.
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[SAT terms] a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
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[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
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