in philosophy the term logical fallacy properly refers to a formal fallacy a flaw in the structure of a deductive reasoning...

the relativist fallacy also known as the subjectivist fallacy is a logical fallacy committed roughly speakin...

an appeal to authority or argument by authority is a type of logical argument argument in logic consisting...

no true scotsman is a term coined by antony flew in his book thinking about thinking it refers to an a...

false choice date september the logical fallacy of false dilemma also known as falsified dilemma fallacy of the excluded middle black and white th...

...e very bad others can have good effects in some cases see bias statistics notoc a biased sample is one that is falsely taken to be typical of a population statistics population from which...

...stion and if it has not been agreed upon by the speakers before the question is improper and the fallacy of many questions has been committed the fallacy relies upon context for its effect the fact that a question presuppos...

affirming the consequent is a logical fallacy in the form of a hypothetical proposition propositionally speaking affi...

this article covers both the argument from ignorance and the argument from incredulity the argument from ignorance also known as argumentum...

personal attack date august an ad hominem logical argument argument also known as argumentum ad hominem latin literally...

fallacies of definition refer to the various ways in which definition s can fail to have merit the term is used to sugg...

ignoratio elenchi also known as irrelevant conclusion is the logical fallacy of presenting an argument t...

this article refers to the logical argument for the novel see the slippery slope in debate or rhetoric the slippery slope is an logical argument argument fo...

also known as ambiguity equivocation is a logical fallacy it is committed when someone uses the same word in different meanings i...

...fines some terms which characterize probability distribution s of two or more variables conditional probability is the probability of some event probability theory event a given the occurrence o...

...nd their behavior towards the output of the computer program program the discovery of the eliza effect was an important development in artificial intelligence demonstrating the principle of using s...

ambiguity ambiguity is the property of word s terms and concepts within a particular context a...

in common law systems that rely on testimony by witnesses a leading question is a question that suggests the answer or contains the information the examiner is looking for fo...