informal fallacy

English

Noun

informal fallacy (plural informal fallacies)

1. (logic) A fallacy whose error cannot be represented by the symbols used in formal logic.

   Antonym: formal fallacy

   Hypernyms: fallacy, logical fallacy

Hyponyms

• ad baculum
• ad hominem
• appeal to accomplishment
• appeal to emotion
• appeal to nature
• appeal to novelty
• appeal to the stone
• appeal to tradition
• argument from incredulity
• argument to moderation
• 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 Lazarum
• argumentum ad nauseam
• argumentum ad passiones
• argumentum ad populum
• argumentum ad verecundiam
• association fallacy
• begging the question
• broken window fallacy
• Bulverism
• cherry picking
• chronological snobbery
• circular reasoning
• continuum fallacy
• cum hoc ergo propter hoc
• denying the correlative
• divine fallacy
• ecological fallacy
• equivocation
• false analogy
• false authority
• false compromise
• 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
• intentional fallacy
• ipse dixit
• Kafkatrap
• magical thinking
• moralistic fallacy
• motte-and-bailey fallacy
• naturalistic fallacy
• oversimplification
• package-deal fallacy
• poison the well
• pooh-pooh
• post hoc
• reverse causation
• straw man
• suppressed correlative
• Texas sharpshooter fallacy
• tone policing
• traitorous critic fallacy
• tu quoque
• two wrongs make a right
• vacuous truth
• wishful thinking

 

Further reading

• formal and informal fallacy summary, britannica.com
• Fallacies in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Fallacies in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy