you stopping beating your wife in 1989 is an example of the logical fallacy.
you stopping beating your wife in 1989 is an example of the logical fallacy.
when did you stop beating your wife is an example of which logical fallacy?
1989
a formal fallacy is contrasted with an informal fallacy, which may have a valid logical form and yet be unsound because one or more premises are false.









































section::::taxonomy.









































the standard aristotelian "logical fallacies" are:









































bullet::::- fallacy of four terms ("quaternio terminorum");









































bullet::::- fallacy of the undistributed middle;









































bullet::::- fallacy of illicit process of the major or the minor term;









































bullet::::- affirmative conclusion from a negative premise.









































other logical fallacies include:









































bullet::::- the self-reliant fallacy









































in philosophy, the term "logical fallacy" properly refers to a formal fallacy—a flaw in the structure of a deductive argument, which renders the argument invalid.
formal fallacy
the term "logical fallacy" is in a sense self-contradictory, because "logic" refers to valid reasoning, whereas a "fallacy" is the use of poor reasoning. therefore, the term "formal fallacy" is preferred. in informal discourse however, "logical fallacy" is used to mean an argument which is problematic for any reason.









































the term "non sequitur" denotes a general formal fallacy, often meaning one which does not belong to any named subclass of formal fallacies like affirming the consequent.









































section::::formal fallacy.:common examples.









































section::::formal fallacy.:common examples.:ecological fallacy.
fallacy