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TAKE THE QUIZ“fallacy of”
The following 5 entries include the term fallacy of.
fallacy of accident
: the fallacy that consists in arguing from some accidental character as if it were essential or necessary (as in the food you buy you eat; you buy raw meat; therefore you eat raw meat)
fallacy of composition
: the fallacy of arguing from premises in which a term is used distributively to a conclusion in which it is used collectively or of assuming that what is true of each member of a class or part of a whole will be true of all together (as in if my money bought more goods I should be better off; therefore we should all benefit if prices were lower)
fallacy of division
: a fallacy in which a term taken collectively is used as if taken distributively
fallacy of the antecedent
: the logical fallacy of denying the antecedent : denial of the antecedent
fallacy of the consequent
: the logical fallacy of affirming the consequent : affirmation of the consequent
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