Phrase Hound found 26 phrases and 1 compound words that contain fallacies. The most common are listed below. Open fallacies in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 26
- association fallaciesplural of association fallacy: a formal fallacy that asserts that properties of one thing must also be properties of another thing if both things belong to the same group
- formal fallaciesplural of formal fallacy: A pattern of reasoning which is always wrong, due to a flaw in the structure of the argument.
- genetic fallaciesplural of genetic fallacy: A fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone's origin rather than its current meaning or context.
- informal fallaciesplural of informal fallacy: A fallacy whose error cannot be represented by the symbols used in formal logic.
- logical fallaciesplural of logical fallacy: A fallacy; a clearly defined error in reasoning used to support or refute an argument, excluding simple unintended mistakes.
- base rate fallaciesplural of base rate fallacy: A common error in logical reasoning where an effect is attributed to an incorrect cause because the basic statistical ratios have not been taken into account.
- etymological fallaciesplural of etymological fallacy: The argument that a word is defined solely by its etymology and that its customary usage can therefore be incorrect.
- fallacies of compositionplural of fallacy of composition: A presumption that if something is true of part(s) of a whole, then it is true of the whole itself.
- masked man fallaciesplural of masked man fallacy: A fallacy of inferring that since one knows (or does not know) something by one description, one must know (or not know) it by another, as in "I know who my father is. I do not know who the masked man is …
- apex fallaciesplural of apex fallacy: The informal fallacy of evaluating a population based only on its apex, its best members.
- bandwagon fallaciesplural of bandwagon fallacy: argumentum ad populum.
- conceptual fallaciesplural of conceptual fallacy: A fallacy due to a misunderstanding or misapplication of concepts, or of the relationships between concepts.
- fallacy fallaciesplural of fallacy fallacy: The formal fallacy of inferring that if an argument contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
- intentional fallaciesplural of intentional fallacy: The idea that an author's intentions should constrain the ways in which a text is properly interpreted, when regarded as an informal fallacy.
- logic fallaciesplural of logic fallacy: A fallacy; a clearly defined error in reasoning used to support or refute an argument, excluding simple unintended mistakes.
- naturalistic fallaciesplural of naturalistic fallacy: The fallacious belief that something is automatically good because it is natural or automatically bad because it is unnatural.
- nirvana fallaciesplural of nirvana fallacy: The informal fallacy of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives.
- pathetic fallaciesplural of pathetic fallacy: The attribution of human thoughts and feelings to inanimate objects.
- toupee fallaciesplural of toupee fallacy: A form of selection bias in which a thing whose quality is measured in terms of being difficult to detect is wrongly judged to be of poor quality in general, caused by the fact that most people only notice …
- black swan fallaciesplural of black swan fallacy: The logical error of discounting the possibility of something because no evidence has yet been observed for it.
- sunk costs fallaciesplural of sunk costs fallacy: The phenomenon where somebody justifies an increased investment of money or other resources based on the cumulative prior investment (the sunk costs), despite new evidence suggesting that the cost of …
- intensional fallaciesplural of intensional fallacy: A fallacy of inferring that since one knows (or does not know) something by one description, one must know (or not know) it by another, as in "I know who my father is. I do not know who the masked man is …
- Goomba fallaciesplural of Goomba fallacy: A logical fallacy that occurs when someone sees contradictory opinions expressed by members of a group and mistakenly believes that those people are being hypocritical, when in reality those contradictory opinions …
- Texas sharpshooter fallaciesplural of Texas sharpshooter fallacy: The fallacy of ignoring differences in data while stressing the similarities.
- no true Scotsman fallaciesplural of no true Scotsman fallacy: An informal fallacy in which one attempts to defend or protect an a posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by covertly modifying the initial claim, especially transforming it into a tautology …
Compound words 1
- counterfallaciesplural of counterfallacy: A fallacy that opposes another fallacy.