informal fallacy
English
Noun
informal fallacy (plural informal fallacies)
- (logic) A fallacy whose error cannot be represented by the symbols used in formal logic.
- Antonym: formal fallacy
- Hypernyms: fallacy, logical fallacy
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
Further reading
- formal and informal fallacy summary, britannica.com
- Fallacies in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Fallacies in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy