"informal fallacy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: informal fallacies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} informal fallacy (plural informal fallacies)
  1. (logic) A fallacy whose error cannot be represented by the symbols used in formal logic. Wikipedia link: informal fallacy Categories (topical): Logic
    Sense id: en-informal_fallacy-en-noun-vrTjX8KS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences Hyponyms: ad baculum, ad hominem, appeal to accomplishment, appeal to emotion, appeal to nature, appeal to novelty, appeal to the stone, appeal to tradition, argument from incredulity, argument to moderation, argumentum ad consequentiam, argumentum ad crumenam, argumentum ad dictionarium, argumentum ad feminam, argumentum ad fidem, argumentum ad hominem, argumentum ad ignorantiam, argumentum ad invidiam, argumentum ad judicium, argumentum ad Lazarum, argumentum ad nauseam, argumentum ad passiones, argumentum ad populum, argumentum ad verecundiam, association fallacy, begging the question, broken window fallacy, Bulverism, cherry picking, chronological snobbery, circular reasoning, continuum fallacy, cum hoc ergo propter hoc, denying the correlative, divine fallacy, ecological fallacy, equivocation, false analogy, false authority, false compromise, false dilemma, false equivalence, faulty generalization, furtive fallacy, gambler's fallacy, genetic fallacy, golden mean fallacy, guilty by association, hasty generalization, historian's fallacy, historical fallacy, ignoratio elenchi, inductive fallacy, intentional fallacy, ipse dixit, Kafkatrap, magical thinking, moralistic fallacy, motte-and-bailey fallacy, naturalistic fallacy, oversimplification, package-deal fallacy, poison the well, pooh-pooh, post hoc, reverse causation, straw man, suppressed correlative, Texas sharpshooter fallacy, tone policing, traitorous critic fallacy, tu quoque, two wrongs make a right, vacuous truth, wishful thinking

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