LOGICAL FALLACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logical fallacy mean? 

• LOGICAL FALLACY (noun)
  The noun LOGICAL FALLACY has 1 sense:

1. a fallacy in logical argumentation

  Familiarity information: LOGICAL FALLACY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGICAL FALLACY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fallacy in logical argumentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("logical fallacy" is a kind of...):

fallacy; false belief (a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "logical fallacy"):

hysteron proteron (the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved)

ignoratio elenchi (the logical fallacy of supposing that an argument proving an irrelevant point has proved the point at issue)

petitio; petitio principii (the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question)

post hoc; post hoc ergo propter hoc (the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation)