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Equivocation is calling two different things by the same name.
It results from using a word in two or more senses in the same argument.
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Formal | In propositional logic |
- Affirming a disjunct
- Affirming the consequent
- Denying the antecedent
- Argument from fallacy
- Masked man
- Mathematical fallacy
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In quantificational logic |
- Existential
- Illicit conversion
- Proof by example
- Quantifier shift
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Syllogistic fallacy |
- Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
- Negative conclusion from affirmative premises
- Exclusive premises
- Existential
- Necessity
- Four terms
- Illicit major
- Illicit minor
- Undistributed middle
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Informal | Equivocation | |
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Question-begging | |
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Correlative-based | |
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Illicit transference | |
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Secundum quid |
- Accident
- Converse accident
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Faulty generalization |
- Anecdotal evidence
- Sampling bias
- Base rate / Conjunction
- Double counting
- False analogy
- Slothful induction
- Overwhelming exception
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Ambiguity | |
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Questionable cause | |
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Appeals |
- Law/Legality
- Stone / Proof by assertion
Consequences | |
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Emotion |
- Children
- Fear
- Flattery
- Novelty
- Pity
- Ridicule
- In-group favoritism
- Invented here / Not invented here
- Island mentality
- Loyalty
- Parade of horribles
- Spite
- Stirring symbols
- Wisdom of repugnance
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Genetic fallacy | |
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Other fallacies of relevance | |
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