formal fallacy

Meaning

Noun

• A pattern of reasoning which is always wrong, due to a flaw in the structure of the argument.

Related

Opposite words

• informal fallacy

Narrower meaning words

• appeal to probability
• affirming a disjunct
• affirming the consequent
• denying the antecedent
• existential fallacy
• illicit negative
• exclusive premises
• fallacy of four terms
• illicit major
• illicit minor
• illicit affirmative
• undistributed middle
• modal fallacy
• modal scope fallacy
• conjunction fallacy
• base rate fallacy
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