formal fallacy
noun1
Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences A pattern of reasoning which is always wrong, due to a flaw in the structure of the argument.
- 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