The fallacy of the undistributed middle (Latin: non distributio medii) is a formal fallacy that is committed when the middle term in a categorical syllogism...

persuasive because of the representativeness heuristic. Affirming the consequent Existential fallacy Fallacy of the undistributed middle Ontogeny recapitulates...

affirmative premises. Fallacy of the undistributed middle – the middle term in a categorical syllogism is not distributed. Modal fallacy – confusing necessity...

informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid form of inference...

known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground fallacy, or golden mean fallacy—is the fallacy that the truth...

of argument, labeled AAA-2 among syllogisms, commits the fallacy of the undistributed middle: it says nothing about all things having four legs (the middle...

Confusion of the inverse Denying the antecedent Fallacies of illicit transference Fallacy of the single cause Fallacy of the undistributed middle Modus ponens...

syllogistic patterns, the fallacies of invalid patterns are: Undistributed middle: Neither of the premises accounts for all members of the middle term, which consequently...

formal fallacies are denying the antecedent, affirming a disjunct, denying a conjunct, and the fallacy of the undistributed middle. Informal fallacies are...

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...

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...

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

(also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief...

The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect or base rate bias, is a type of fallacy in which people tend to ignore the base rate (e.g., general...

Informal fallacies are a type of incorrect argument in natural language. The source of the error is not just due to the form of the argument, as is the case...

The fallacy of accident (also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid) is an informal fallacy where a general rule...

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

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

told a story of having used a strong-smelling smoked fish to divert and distract hounds from chasing a rabbit. As an informal fallacy, the red herring...

the fallacy include: appeal to (common) belief appeal to popularity appeal to the majority appeal to the masses argument from consensus authority of the...

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

the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to category B. Other idioms for the slippery slope fallacy are the...

mathematical fallacy in a proof, in that a mistake in a proof leads to an invalid proof while in the best-known examples of mathematical fallacies there is...

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...

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

The fallacy of the single cause, also known as complex cause, causal oversimplification, causal reductionism, root cause fallacy, and reduction fallacy...

The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions...

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

an informal fallacy wherein a conclusion is drawn about all or many instances of a phenomenon on the basis of one or a few instances of that phenomenon...