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Fallacy of quoting out of context — The practice of quoting out of context, sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining , is a logical fallacy and a type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended… … Wikipedia
Fallacy of misplaced concreteness — In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or concrete reality.Whitehead proposed the fallacy in… … Wikipedia
Mathematical fallacy — In mathematics, certain kinds of mistakes in proof, calculation, or derivation are often exhibited, and sometimes collected, as illustrations of the concept of mathematical fallacy. The specimens of the greatest interest can be seen as… … Wikipedia
Reification (fallacy) — Contents 1 Etymology 2 Theory 3 Difference between reification and hypostatisation … Wikipedia
Nirvana fallacy — The nirvana fallacy is the logical error of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives. It can also refer to the tendency to assume that there is a perfect solution to a particular problem. A closely related concept is the… … Wikipedia
Etymological fallacy — The etymological fallacy holds, erroneously, that the original or historical meaning of a word or phrase is necessarily similar to its actual present day meaning. This is a linguistic misconception, based on a mistaken idea concerning the… … Wikipedia
Ludic fallacy — The ludic fallacy is a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan . Ludic is from the Latin ludus , meaning play . It is summarized as the misuse of games to model real life situations . [… … Wikipedia
Genetic fallacy — The genetic fallacy is a fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone s origin rather than its current meaning or context. This overlooks any difference to be found in the present situation,… … Wikipedia
Gambler's fallacy — The Gambler s fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy (because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913)[1], and also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that if deviations from… … Wikipedia
Formal fallacy — In philosophy, a formal fallacy or a logical fallacy is a pattern of reasoning which is always wrong. This is due to a flaw in the structure of the argument which renders the argument invalid. A formal fallacy is contrasted with an informal… … Wikipedia
