"formal fallacy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: formal fallacies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} formal fallacy (plural formal fallacies)
  1. (logic) A pattern of reasoning which is always wrong, due to a flaw in the structure of the argument. Wikipedia link: formal fallacy Categories (topical): Logic, Logical fallacies
    Sense id: en-formal_fallacy-en-noun-uHayvax~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences Hyponyms: affirming a disjunct, affirming the consequent, appeal to probability, base rate fallacy, conjunction fallacy, denying the antecedent, exclusive premises, existential fallacy, fallacy of four terms, illicit affirmative, illicit major, illicit minor, illicit negative, masked-man fallacy, illicit substitution of identicals, modal fallacy, modal scope fallacy, undistributed middle

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