Thesaurus:incorrect argument
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: incorrect argument
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- incorrect argument
- misargument
- non-argument
- pseudoargument
Hypernyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]General
Specific formal fallacies
- 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
- illicit substitution of identicals
- masked-man fallacy
- modal fallacy
- modal scope fallacy
- undistributed middle
Specific informal fallacies
- Bulverism
- Chewbacca defense
- Kafkatrap
- Texas sharpshooter fallacy
- ad baculum
- ad hominem
- ad verecundiam
- apex fallacy
- appeal to accomplishment
- appeal to authority
- appeal to emotion
- appeal to nature
- appeal to novelty
- appeal to the stone
- appeal to tradition
- argument from incredulity
- argument to moderation
- argumentum ad Lazarum
- argumentum ad baculum
- argumentum ad consequentiam
- argumentum ad crumenam
- argumentum ad dictionarium
- argumentum ad feminam
- argumentum ad fidem
- argumentum ad hominem
- argumentum ad ignorantiam
- argumentum ad invidiam
- argumentum ad judicium
- argumentum ad nauseam
- argumentum ad numerum
- argumentum ad passiones
- argumentum ad populum
- argumentum ad verecundiam
- association fallacy
- bandwagon fallacy
- base rate fallacy
- begging the question
- broken window fallacy
- cherry picking
- chronological snobbery
- circular argument
- circular reasoning
- continuum fallacy
- cum hoc ergo propter hoc
- denying the correlative
- divine fallacy
- ecological fallacy
- equivocation
- equivocation
- fallacy fallacy
- fallacy of composition
- false analogy
- false authority
- false compromise
- false dichotomy
- false dilemma
- false equivalence
- faulty generalization
- furtive fallacy
- gambler's fallacy
- genetic fallacy
- golden mean fallacy
- guilty by association
- hasty generalization
- historian's fallacy
- historical fallacy
- ignoratio elenchi
- inductive fallacy
- ipse dixit
- magical thinking
- masked man fallacy
- moralistic fallacy
- motte-and-bailey fallacy
- move the goalposts
- naturalistic fallacy
- negative proof
- no true Scotsman fallacy
- non distributio medii
- non sequitur
- oversimplification
- package-deal fallacy
- petitio principii
- poison the well
- pooh-pooh
- post hoc
- red herring
- red-baiting
- red-tagging
- reductio ad Hitlerum
- special pleading
- straw man
- suppressed correlative
- tone policing
- traitorous critic fallacy
- tu quoque
- two wrongs make a right
- vacuous truth
- vicious circle
- wishful thinking
Various
[edit]Similar notions
- demagogism
- demagoguery
- demagogy
- deception [⇒ thesaurus]
- misclaim
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- error [⇒ thesaurus]
- defect [⇒ thesaurus]
- falsehood [⇒ thesaurus]
Adjectives describing an argument as incorrect or weak
- bad [⇒ thesaurus]
- invalid
- poor
- incorrect
- wrong
- unsound
- weak [⇒ thesaurus]
- unconvincing
- implausible
- misleading
- inconclusive
- fallacious
- erroneous
- illogical
- absurd [⇒ thesaurus]
- specious
- flawed
- dishonest
- deceptive [⇒ thesaurus]
- stupid [⇒ thesaurus]
- silly
- insane [⇒ thesaurus]
- irrelevant [⇒ thesaurus]
People making incorrect arguments
Notes
[edit]- Per Irving Copi's definition (see SEP), a fallacy is a seemingly correct yet incorrect argument. It is therefore a more specific notion than "incorrect argument".
See also
[edit]- Category:en:Logical fallacies
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 477. Intuition
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 495. Error
- Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/29 § fallacy
Further reading
[edit]- “477. Intuition” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “fallacy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- "fallacy" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
- "specious argument" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
- fallacy | logic, britannica.com
- Fallacy, Logical, encyclopedia.com
- Fallacies in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Fallacies in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy