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informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid form of inference...

A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument. All forms of human communication can contain fallacies...

Informal fallacies are a type of incorrect argument in natural language. The source of the error is not just due to the form of the argument, as is the case...

Propagandhi The song title "Tertium Non Datur" is in Latin, meaning, "There is no third [possibility]", i.e. the Law of excluded middle, though Fallacy of the excluded...

is an informal fallacy in which one modifies a prior claim in response to a counterexample by asserting the counterexample is excluded by definition....

The modal fallacy or modal scope fallacy is a type of formal fallacy that occurs in modal logic. It is the fallacy of placing a proposition in the wrong...

(also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief...

equivocation ("calling two different things by the same name") is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word or expression in multiple...

probability of seeing film X tonight, then we face the fallacy of the excluded middle: the event that actually occurs, seeing none of the films tonight...

or the fallacy of proof by example, might be used. When evidence is intentionally excluded to bias the result, the fallacy of exclusion—a form of selection...

process one is engaged in (such as a game of football) has already started. Moving the goalposts is an informal fallacy in which evidence presented in response...

formal fallacies are denying the antecedent, affirming a disjunct, denying a conjunct, and the fallacy of the undistributed middle. Informal fallacies are...

The principle of bivalence is related to the law of excluded middle though the latter is a syntactic expression of the language of a logic of the form...

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 particular...

conducted on manual laborers, the health of the general population will likely be overestimated. Berkson's fallacy, when the study population is selected...

all. The excluded middle. An arguer only considers or mentions the two opposite extremes of the conversation and excludes the aspects in between the two...

scope of logic can therefore be very large, ranging from core topics such as the study of fallacies and paradoxes, to specialized analyses of reasoning...

introduced the ideas of intentional fallacy and affective fallacy. Also very influential were the critical essays of T. S. Eliot, such as "Tradition and the Individual...

Quoting out of context (sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining) is an informal fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding...

(set theory) Dichotomy paradox Dilemma Law of excluded middle, which in logic asserts the existence of a dichotomy Taxonomy Trichotomy (disambiguation)...