"false analogy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: false analogies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} false analogy (plural false analogies)
  1. (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. Wikipedia link: false analogy Categories (topical): Logic, Logical fallacies Translations (informal fallacy): قِيَاس مَعَ الْفَارِق (qiyās maʕa l-fāriq) [masculine] (Arabic), klamná analogie [feminine] (Czech), virheellinen analogia (Finnish), fausse analogie [feminine] (French), ψευδής αναλογία (psevdís analogía) [feminine] (Greek), analogie greșită [feminine] (Romanian), analogie falsă [feminine] (Romanian), yanlış analoji (Turkish)

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