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nouna misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
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Definition that contains fallacy
- unsound containing or based on a fallacy
- fallacious containing or based on a fallacy
- post hoc the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation
- pathetic fallacy the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; `the friendly sun' is an example of the pathetic fallacy
- post hoc ergo propter hoc the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation
- hysteron proteron the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
- petitio the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question
- ignoratio elenchi the logical fallacy of supposing that an argument proving an irrelevant point has proved the point at issue
- petitio principii the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question
- fallaciousness result of a fallacy or error in reasoning