formal fallacy
English
Noun
formal fallacy (plural formal fallacies)
- (logic) A pattern of reasoning which is always wrong, due to a flaw in the structure of the argument.
- Antonym: informal fallacy
- Hypernyms: fallacy, logical fallacy
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
Further reading
- fallacy - Verbal fallacies, britannica.com
- formal and informal fallacy summary, britannica.com
- Fallacies in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Fallacies in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy