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Best Answer: Faulty reasoning is when a person assumes something is fact based on other facts. That is faulty reasoning. Whenever the deduction is based on half-truths, invalid theories, etc...that leads to faulty reasoning. Hope that makes sense, been a few years since I took Philosophy.
If our heuristics fail to produce a correct judgment, it may result in a cognitive bias, which is the tendency to draw incorrect conclusions based on cognitive factors. I will in the following discuss some biases that occur in decision making: illusory correlation, overconfidence, and hindsight bias.