The association fallacy is a formal logical fallacy that asserts that properties of one thing must also be properties of another thing if both things...

contain fallacies. Because of their variety, fallacies are challenging to classify. They can be classified by their structure (formal fallacies) or content...

A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The...

The fallacy of composition is an informal fallacy that arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some...

The genetic fallacy (also known as the fallacy of origins or fallacy of virtue) is a fallacy of irrelevance in which arguments or information are dismissed...

Regression fallacy Texas sharpshooter fallacy Jumping to conclusions Association fallacy Magical thinking "Questionable Cause". Bennett, Bo. "Questionable...

informal fallacy which one commits when one reasons, "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X." It is a fallacy in which...

result, the fallacy of exclusion—a form of selection bias—is said to be involved. Accident (fallacy) – Informal fallacy Association fallacy – Informal...

connections between coincidences. (Compare confirmation bias.) Association fallacies include: Authority bias, the tendency to attribute greater accuracy...

(argumentum ad logicam), the fallacy fallacy, the fallacist's fallacy, and the bad reasons fallacy. An argument from fallacy has the following general argument...

The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is an informal fallacy which is committed when differences in data are ignored, but similarities are overemphasized. From...

The gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that, if an event (whose occurrences...

fascist components of Nazism like Führerprinzip are not part of the association fallacy. Invented by Leo Strauss in 1953, reductio ad Hitlerum takes its...

No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect an a posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by...

Guilt by Association may refer to: Association fallacy, sometimes called guilt by association Felony murder rule Guilty by Association (album), the debut...

number of informal fallacies have been identified, including the fallacy of equivocation, the fallacy of amphiboly, the fallacies of composition and division...

The conjunction fallacy (also known as the Linda problem) is an inference that a conjoint set of two or more specific conclusions is likelier than any...

Nazi-inspired tropes and phrases by the "alt-right". Internet portal Association fallacy Goebbels gap Law of truly large numbers List of eponymous laws Nazi...

The nirvana fallacy is the informal fallacy of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives. It can also refer to the tendency to...

In logic and philosophy, a formal fallacy is a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in...

information sources outside the group. Anti-pattern Appeal to spite Association fallacy De facto standard Dogfooding Editor wars Endowment effect – ascribing...

An ecological fallacy (also ecological inference fallacy or population fallacy) is a formal fallacy in the interpretation of statistical data that occurs...

A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion,...

observed association or correlation between them. The idea that "correlation implies causation" is an example of a questionable-cause logical fallacy, in which...

The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily...

of a concept called mathematical fallacy. There is a distinction between a simple mistake and a mathematical fallacy in a proof, in that a mistake in...

authority of the many bandwagon fallacy common belief fallacy democratic fallacy mob appeal[citation needed] truth by association consensus gentium (Latin for...

The McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy), named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making...

In metaethics, the naturalistic fallacy is the claim that it is possible to define good in terms of merely described entities, properties, or processes...

arguments are sometimes used with preemptive invocations of the association fallacy. In this pattern, an unfavorable attribute is ascribed to any future...