All forms of human communication can contain fallacies. Because of their variety, fallacies are challenging to classify. They can be classified by their structure (formal fallacies) or content …

A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument [1][2] that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The term was introduced in the …

For them, a fallacy is reasoning that comes to a conclusion without the evidence to support it. This may have to do with pure logic, with the assumptions that the argument is based on, or with …

Fallacy, in logic, erroneous reasoning that has the appearance of soundness. In logic an argument consists of a set of statements, the premises, whose truth supposedly supports the …

There are two main types of logical fallacies: formal and informal. Formal fallacies involve errors in the structure or form of an argument, while informal fallacies arise from errors in the content, …

Fallacies can be either illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points, and are often identified because they lack evidence that supports their claim. Avoid these common fallacies in your own …

Oct 4, 2025 · Fallacycheck.com identifies and names logical fallacies in content from news, editorials and social media. The service crawls thousands of internet pages, calling out logical …

Apr 20, 2023 · A logical fallacy is an argument that may sound convincing or true but is actually flawed, leading to an unsupported conclusion.

Fallacy consisting of the repetition of the premise, as if insisting on the same could impose its validity or falsity. It is the fallacy summed up in the famous phrase of the propaganda minister …

Fallacies are fake or deceptive arguments, "junk cognition," that is, arguments that seem irrefutable but prove nothing. Fallacies often seem superficially sound and they far too often …