Thesaurus:incorrect argument

Thesaurus

incorrect argument

English

Noun

Sense: incorrect argument

Synonyms

• incorrect argument
• misargument
• non-argument
• pseudoargument

Hypernyms

• argument    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

General

• casuistry
• fallacy
• paralogism
• rationalization
• sophism
• sophistry
• formal fallacy
• informal fallacy

Specific formal fallacies

• affirming a disjunct
• affirming the consequent
• appeal to probability
• base rate fallacy
• conjunction fallacy
• denying the antecedent
• exclusive premises
• existential fallacy
• fallacy of four terms
• illicit affirmative
• illicit major
• illicit minor
• illicit negative
• illicit substitution of identicals
• masked-man fallacy
• modal fallacy
• modal scope fallacy
• undistributed middle

Specific informal fallacies

• Bulverism
• Chewbacca defense
• Kafkatrap
• Texas sharpshooter fallacy
• ad baculum
• ad hominem
• ad verecundiam
• apex fallacy
• appeal to accomplishment
• appeal to authority
• appeal to emotion
• appeal to nature
• appeal to novelty
• appeal to the stone
• appeal to tradition
• argument from incredulity
• argument to moderation
• argumentum ad Lazarum
• argumentum ad baculum
• argumentum ad consequentiam
• argumentum ad crumenam
• argumentum ad dictionarium
• argumentum ad feminam
• argumentum ad fidem
• argumentum ad hominem
• argumentum ad ignorantiam
• argumentum ad invidiam
• argumentum ad judicium
• argumentum ad nauseam
• argumentum ad numerum
• argumentum ad passiones
• argumentum ad populum
• argumentum ad verecundiam
• association fallacy
• bandwagon fallacy
• base rate fallacy
• begging the question
• broken window fallacy
• cherry picking
• chronological snobbery
• circular argument
• circular reasoning
• continuum fallacy
• cum hoc ergo propter hoc
• denying the correlative
• divine fallacy
• ecological fallacy
• equivocation
• equivocation
• fallacy fallacy
• fallacy of composition
• false analogy
• false authority
• false compromise
• false dichotomy
• false dilemma
• false equivalence
• faulty generalization
• furtive fallacy
• gambler's fallacy
• genetic fallacy
• golden mean fallacy
• guilty by association
• hasty generalization
• historian's fallacy
• historical fallacy
• ignoratio elenchi
• inductive fallacy
• ipse dixit
• magical thinking
• masked man fallacy
• moralistic fallacy
• motte-and-bailey fallacy
• move the goalposts
• naturalistic fallacy
• negative proof
• no true Scotsman fallacy
• non distributio medii
• non sequitur
• oversimplification
• package-deal fallacy
• petitio principii
• poison the well
• pooh-pooh
• post hoc
• red herring
• red-baiting
• red-tagging
• reductio ad Hitlerum
• special pleading
• straw man
• suppressed correlative
• tone policing
• traitorous critic fallacy
• tu quoque
• two wrongs make a right
• vacuous truth
• vicious circle
• wishful thinking

Various

Similar notions

• demagogism
• demagoguery
• demagogy
• deception    [⇒ thesaurus]
• misclaim
• misrepresentation
• misstatement
• error    [⇒ thesaurus]
• defect    [⇒ thesaurus]
• falsehood    [⇒ thesaurus]

Adjectives describing an argument as incorrect or weak

• bad    [⇒ thesaurus]
• invalid
• poor
• incorrect
• wrong
• unsound
• weak    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unconvincing
• implausible
• misleading
• inconclusive
• fallacious
• erroneous
• illogical
• absurd    [⇒ thesaurus]
• specious
• flawed
• dishonest
• deceptive    [⇒ thesaurus]
• stupid    [⇒ thesaurus]
• silly
• insane    [⇒ thesaurus]
• irrelevant    [⇒ thesaurus]

People making incorrect arguments

• sophist
• casuist
• demagogue
• deceiver    [⇒ thesaurus]

Notes

• Per Irving Copi's definition (see SEP), a fallacy is a seemingly correct yet incorrect argument. It is therefore a more specific notion than "incorrect argument".

See also

• Category:en:Logical fallacies
• Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 477. Intuition
• Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 495. Error
• Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/29 § fallacy

Further reading

• “477. Intuition” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “fallacy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• "fallacy" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• "specious argument" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• fallacy | logic, britannica.com
• Fallacy, Logical, encyclopedia.com
• Fallacies in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Fallacies in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy