The fallacy of the undistributed middle (Latin: non distributio medii) is a formal fallacy that is committed when the middle term in a categorical syllogism...
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syllogism. The standard Aristotelian logical fallacies are: Fallacy of four terms (Quaternio terminorum); Fallacy of the undistributed middle; Fallacy of illicit...
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False dilemma (redirect from Fallacy of the excluded middle)
informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid form of inference...
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Argument to moderation (redirect from Fallacy of the middle ground)
known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground fallacy, or golden mean fallacyβis the fallacy that the truth...
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affirmative premises. Fallacy of the undistributed middle β the middle term in a categorical syllogism is not distributed. Modal fallacy β confusing necessity...
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because of the representativeness heuristic. Affirming the consequent Ecological fallacy Existential fallacy Fallacy of the undistributed middle Ontogeny...
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Politician's syllogism (redirect from Politician's fallacy)
of argument, labeled AAA-2 among syllogisms, commits the fallacy of the undistributed middle: it says nothing about all things having four legs (the middle...
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Syllogism (redirect from Syllogistic fallacy)
syllogistic patterns, the fallacies of invalid patterns are: Undistributed middle: Neither of the premises accounts for all members of the middle term, which consequently...
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Confusion of the inverse Denying the antecedent Fallacies of illicit transference Fallacy of the single cause Fallacy of the undistributed middle Modus ponens...
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Logical reasoning (section Fallacies)
formal fallacies are denying the antecedent, affirming a disjunct, denying a conjunct, and the fallacy of the undistributed middle. Informal fallacies are...
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