Argument

Formal fallacy

Overview

deductive argument that is invalid due to faulty reasoning, regardless of the truthiness of the conclusion

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Philosophers who discussed Formal fallacy

• Intellectual
• Maarten Boudry
• The Art of Loving

Related ideas

• Globe Pequot Publishing Group
• Argument
• Informal fallacy
• Propositional logic
• Validity (logic)
• Soundness
• Philosophical logic
• Logical form
• Reason
• Logic
• Syllogism
• Affirming the consequent
• Contradiction
• Premise
• Consequent
• Mathematical proof

Place in the tradition

Part of Dualism in cosmology.

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