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 Translation for 'fallacy' from English to Slovak
NOUN1   a fallacy | fallacies
NOUN2   fallacy | -
SYNO fallacy | false belief
omyl {m}fallacy
mylná predstava {f}fallacy
klamná predstava {f}fallacy
blud {m} [mylný názor]fallacy
filoz.
klamný záver {m}
fallacy
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Usage Examples English
  • Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its "conclusion" must be false.
  • In philosophical logic, the masked-man fallacy (also known as the intensional fallacy or epistemic fallacy) is committed when one makes an illicit use of Leibniz's law in an argument.
  • Each fallacy falls into at least one of Damer's five fallacy categories, which derive from the above criteria.
  • The term "logical fallacy" is in a sense self-contradictory, because "logic" refers to valid reasoning, whereas a "fallacy" is the use of poor reasoning.
  • Flawed reasoning in arguments is known as fallacious reasoning. Bad reasoning within arguments can be because it commits either a formal fallacy or an informal fallacy.

  • Emergence helps to explain why the fallacy of division is a fallacy.
  • The lump of labor fallacy is also known as the lump of jobs fallacy, fallacy of labour scarcity, fixed pie fallacy, and the zero-sum fallacy—due to its ties to zero-sum games.
  • Representativeness is cited in the similar effect of the gambler's fallacy, the regression fallacy and the conjunction fallacy.
  • The Van Gogh Fallacy is an example of a logical fallacy.
  • The complex question fallacy, or "many questions fallacy", is context dependent; a presupposition by itself doesn't have to be a fallacy.

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