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  • The fallacy of four terms (Latin: quaternio terminorum) is the formal fallacy that occurs when a syllogism has four (or more) terms rather than the requisite...
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  • 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 pleasant...
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  • meanings, not from the grammar or structure of the sentence. Equivocation in a syllogism (a chain of reasoning) produces a fallacy of four terms (quaternio terminorum)...
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  • the minor premise or the major premise. It is thus a syllogistic fallacy. In classical syllogisms, all statements consist of two terms and are in the...
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  • The invincible ignorance fallacy, also known as argument by pigheadedness, is a deductive fallacy of circularity where the person in question simply refuses...
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  • An ecological fallacy (also ecological inference fallacy or population fallacy) is a formal fallacy in the interpretation of statistical data that occurs...
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  • The nirvana fallacy is the informal fallacy of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives. It can also refer to the tendency to...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • mathematical fallacy in a proof, in that a mistake in a proof leads to an invalid proof while in the best-known examples of mathematical fallacies there is...
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  • an informal fallacy wherein a conclusion is drawn about all or many instances of a phenomenon on the basis of one or a few instances of that phenomenon...
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  • The conjunction fallacy (also known as the Linda problem) is an inference that a conjoint set of two or more specific conclusions is likelier than any...
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    The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect or base rate bias, is a type of fallacy in which people tend to ignore the base rate (e.g., general...
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  • syllogism. The standard Aristotelian logical fallacies are: Fallacy of four terms (Quaternio terminorum); Fallacy of the undistributed middle; Fallacy of illicit...
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  • known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground fallacy, or golden mean fallacy—is the fallacy that the truth...
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  • The fallacy of composition is an informal fallacy that arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some...
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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...
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  • The fallacy of division is an informal fallacy that occurs when one reasons that something that is true for a whole must also be true of all or some of...
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  • The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is an informal fallacy which is committed when differences in data are ignored, but similarities are overemphasized. From...
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    the slippery slope fallacy are the thin edge of the wedge, domino fallacy (as a form of domino effect argument) or dam burst, and various other terms...
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