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formal fallacies

formal fallacies is the plural of formal fallacy.

Meaning of formal fallacy

Noun

formal fallacy (plural formal fallacies)

  1. A pattern of reasoning which is always wrong, due to a flaw in the structure of the argument.

Questions about formal fallacies

What is formal fallacies the plural of?
Formal fallacies is the plural of formal fallacy.

Words near formal fallacies in the dictionary

  1. formal charge
  2. formal charges
  3. formal education
  4. formal educations
  5. formal equivalence
  6. formal fallacies
  7. formal fallacy
  8. formal grammar
  9. formal grammars
  10. formal hall
  11. formal halls

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