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Logical fallacy   /lˈɑdʒɪkəl fˈæləsi/   Listen
Logical fallacy

noun
1.
A fallacy in logical argumentation.





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"Logical fallacy" Quotes from Famous Books



... conclusion "Carlo is an animal." The conclusion is correct because we have reasoned in accordance with the laws of logic, with the laws of valid thought. All logical reasoning is, of course, not so simple as the example given, but it may be stated generally that when there is no logical fallacy, a correct conclusion may be arrived at, provided, too—and herein lies the difficulty—provided that the premises are also true. These premises may be in themselves general statements—how is their truth established? They may be, and often are, the generalisations ...
— Rudolph Eucken • Abel J. Jones
... propose, in the interests of peace and good government, to crush the enemy's aggressiveness by a purely defensive aggression, an excuse for bloodshed which only the most fanatical pacifist could confuse with Mr. Asquith's blunt watchword of "crushing German militarism." The logical fallacy of such an excuse which is almost invariably pleaded by powerful belligerents,[84] a fallacy of which no one could wish to accuse Mr. Asquith's solid intellect, lies (quite apart from any question of the priority ...
— The World in Chains - Some Aspects of War and Trade • John Mavrogordato


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