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- Failure to Elucidate - unclear definition
- Fake Precision - giving lots of irrelevent details
- Fallacious Modus Ponens - "if A is true, then B is true; B is true, therefore A is true"
- Fallacious Modus Tollens - "If A is true, then B is true; A is false, therefore B is false"
- Fallacious Reductio ad absurdum -
- Fallacist's Fallacy - "he used a fallacy, he must be wrong"
- Fallacy - any common type of error in reasoning
- Fallacy based on faulty logic -
- Fallacy based on faulty or unwarranted premises -
- Fallacy based on insufficient or ambiguous information -
- Fallacy based on irrelevant information, issue avoidance, or distractions -
- Fallacy based on misleading or errant information, or faulty conceptualizing -
- Fallacy based on the absence of information -
- Fallacy Fallacy - "he used a fallacy, he must be wrong"
- Fallacy Involving Statistical Syllogisms -
- Fallacy of Accent - altering the meaning, but not the literal truth, of a reported statement by falsely emphasizing certain words.
- Fallacy of Accident - generalizing from typical instances
- Fallacy of Ambiguity - using a word or phrase with more than one meaning
- Fallacy of Amphiboly - using a sentence which can be interpreted in more than one way because of ambiguous grammar
- Fallacy of Appeal to Personal Interest - appeal to the personal preferences, dislikes, or weaknesses of those one wants to convince
- Fallacy of Argument Against the Man - attacking, instead of the position or argument, the person who holds it
- Fallacy of Argument from Ignorance - "absence of evidence is evidence of absence"
- Fallacy of Argument to Veneration - "he's an authority (for something else, but I will gloss over that), he must be right"
- Fallacy of argumentum ad baculum - "rejecting this belief would have really bad consequences for you, you should accept it"
- Fallacy of argumentum ad hominem - attacking, instead of the position or argument, the person who holds it
- Fallacy of argumentum ad ignorantiam - "absence of evidence is evidence of absence"
- Fallacy of argumentum ad misericordiam - "he's suffering that much, he must be right"
- Fallacy of argumentum ad personam - appeal to the personal preferences, dislikes, or weaknesses of those one wants to convince
- Fallacy of argumentum ad populum - "lots of people believe this, it must be right"
- Fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam - "he's an authority (for something else, but I will gloss over that), he must be right"
- Fallacy of Authority -
- Fallacy of Authority related to arguments -
- Fallacy of Authority related to debates and audiences -
- Fallacy of Begging the Question - using a reformulation of an opinion as justification for that opinion
- Fallacy of Cause -
- Fallacy of Circularity -
- Fallacy of Complex Question -
- Fallacy of Composition - "a part has that property, therefore the whole has that property"
- Fallacy of consensus gentium - "lots of people believe this, it must be right"
- Fallacy of Converse Accident - On the basis of the exceptions from a rule, rejecting the whole rule
- Fallacy of Cum Hoc - "A happens together with B. So A is the cause of B"
- Fallacy of Decomposition - "the whole has that property, therefore the parts of the whole have that property"
- Fallacy of Definition -
- Fallacy of Distraction -
- Fallacy of Distraction related to emotion -
- Fallacy of Distraction related to minutia -
- Fallacy of Distraction related to other issues -
- Fallacy of Distraction related to personalities -
- Fallacy of Diversion -
- Fallacy of Division - "the whole has that property, therefore the parts have that property"
- Fallacy of Drawing an Affirmative Conclusion From a Negative Premise - "Some (or all) A are (not) B; some (or all) B are (not) C; therefore some (or all) A are C", with at least one "not"
- Fallacy of Equivocation - using an ambiguous word in different senses in the same argument
- Fallacy of Exclusion - picking and choosing the evidence for one's case, neglecting the evidence against it
- Fallacy of Exclusive Premises - "no penguins are mammals, no penguins are insects. therefore no mammals are insects"
- Fallacy of Existential Assumption - "all unicorns are mammals, therefore some mammals are unicorns"
- Fallacy of Explanation -
- Fallacy of False Alternatives - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- Fallacy of False Cause -
- Fallacy of False Causes -
- Fallacy of Four Terms - "Some (or all) A are (not) B; some (or all) C are (not) D; therefore some (or all) A are (not) D"
- Fallacy of Grammatical Analogy -
- Fallacy of Hasty Generalization - generalizing from very few instances
- Fallacy of ignoratio elenchi - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Fallacy of Ill-posed Question -
- Fallacy of Inconstistency -
- Fallacy of Induction - fallacy where induction goes wrong
- Fallacy of Insufficient Sample - generalizing from very few instances
- Fallacy of Insufficient Statistics - generalizing from very few instances
- Fallacy of Interrogation -
- Fallacy of Interrogative Presupposition -
- Fallacy of Irrelevant Conclusion - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Fallacy of Irrelevant Purpose -
- Fallacy of 'is' to 'ought' - "if it is like this, it ought be like this"
- Fallacy of Limited Alternatives - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- Fallacy of Loaded Question -
- Fallacy of Many Questions -
- Fallacy of Materiality - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Fallacy of Misleading Context - distorting the meaning of a quote by removing its surrounding text
- Fallacy of Multiplication -
- Fallacy of Negative Proof - "absence of evidence is evidence of absence"
- Fallacy of Opposition -
- Fallacy of Personal Attack - attacking, instead of the position or argument, the person who holds it
- Fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc - "A happened after B. So A is the cause of B"
- Fallacy of Prejudice -
- Fallacy of Presumption -
- Fallacy of Presupposition -
- Fallacy of Propositional Logic -
- Fallacy of Quantificational Logic -
- Fallacy of Red Herring - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Fallacy of Reduction - making a complicated problem appear to be too much simpler than it really is
- Fallacy of Relevance - while pretending to talk about the subject in question, really talking about something else
- Fallacy of Repetition - repeating an argument again and again and hammering it into people's brain
- Fallacy of Reversing Causation -
- Fallacy of Slanting - picking and choosing the evidence for one's case, neglecting the evidence against it
- Fallacy of Soundness -
- Fallacy of Special Pleading -
- Fallacy of Statistics - "I threw a series of heads, so the next throw will very probably result in tails"
- Fallacy of the Alternative Syllogism - "A or B is true; A is true, therefore B is false"
- Fallacy of the Beard -
- Fallacy of the Consequent - "if A is true, then B is true; therefore, if B is true, A is true"
- Fallacy of the Disjunctive Syllogism - "A or B is false; A is false, therefore B is true"
- Fallacy of the Heap - rejecting a vague claim because it's not as precise as we'd like
- Fallacy of the Lonely Fact - generalizing from very few instances
- Fallacy of the Straw Man - misrepresenting the opponent's position
- Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle - "all penguins are birds, all eagles are birds, therefore all eagles are penguins"
- Fallacy of tu quoque - trying to escape from an accusation by directing the same accusation right back
- Fallacy of Unqualified Source - "he's an authority (for something else, but I will gloss over that), he must be right"
- Fallacy of Weak Induction - fallacy where induction goes wrong
- False Alternative - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- False Alternatives - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- False Alternatives Fallacy - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- False Analogy -
- False Analogy Fallacy -
- False Attribution - misrepresenting the opponent's position
- False Cause -
- False Compromise -
- False Conversion -
- False Dichotomy - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- False Dilemma - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- False Dilemma Fallacy - giving two possibilities as the only two when in reality there are other possibilities
- False Metaphor -
- False Precision - giving lots of irrelevent details
- False Report -
- False Report Fallacy -
- Falsifiability - "absence of evidence is evidence of absence"
- Falsified Inductive Generalization - when defining a term, excluding instances that are usually called by that term
- Fantasy Projection - arguing from the own position and not acknowledging the existence of other possibilities
- Far-Fetched Hypothesis - proposing an explanation based on not universally accepted entities, such as aliens, ghosts, or gods
- Faulty Analogy -
- Faulty Causal Assumption - "A happened after B. So A is the cause of B"
- Faulty Causal Direction -
- Faulty Causal Generalization -
- Faulty Causal Presumption - "A happens together with B. So A is the cause of B"
- Faulty Causal Significance -
- Faulty Causation -
- Faulty Comparison -
- Faulty Complex Cause - identifying only part of the cause of an event and calling it "the cause"
- Faulty Generalization - fallacy where induction goes wrong
- Fishing for Data -
- Flat Earth Navigation Syndrome -
- Floating Abstraction - a generalization subsuming no particulars
- Floating Abstraction Fallacy - a generalization subsuming no particulars
- Forer Effect - accepting general and vague statements as accurate descriptions of oneself
- Forestalling Disagreement - attempting to make an opponent or audience unwilling to debate an issue
- Formal - any fallacy based solely on logic
- Formal Fallacy - any fallacy based solely on logic
- Formally Correct Fallacy -
- Four Term Fallacy - "Some (or all) A are (not) B; some (or all) C are (not) D; therefore some (or all) A are (not) D"
- Four Terms - "Some (or all) A are (not) B; some (or all) C are (not) D; therefore some (or all) A are (not) D"
- From Ignorance - "absence of evidence is evidence of absence"
- Frozen Abstraction - when defining a term, excluding instances that are usually called by that term
- Frozen Abstraction Fallacy - when defining a term, excluding instances that are usually called by that term
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