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111Intentional fallacy — Als intentionaler Fehlschluss oder auch intentionalistischer Fehlschluss (englisch intentional fallacy) wird in der Literaturtheorie des New Criticism eine Herangehensweise an Texte bezeichnet, die darauf abzielt, die Intention (Absicht) des… …
112pathetic fallacy — the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings, as in the smiling skies; the angry sea. [coined by John Ruskin in Modern Painters Vol. III, Part IV (1856)] * * * ▪ figure of speech poetic practice of… …
113Descriptive fallacy — The descriptive fallacy refers to reasoning which treats a speech act as a logical proposition, which would be mistaken when the meaning of the statement is not based on its truth condition.[1] It was suggested by the British philosopher of… …
114Monte Carlo fallacy — 1957, named for resort in Monaco famous for its gambling casinos. The fallacy of thinking that the probability of a particular outcome rises with the successive number of opposite outcomes. Contrary to the Monte Carlo fallacy, if the roulette… …
115formal fallacy — noun : a violation of any rule of formal inference called also paralogism; contrasted with material fallacy and verbal fallacy; compare affirmation of the consequent, denial of the antecedent, ignoratio elenchi, illicit process …
116material fallacy — noun : a reasoning that is unsound because of an error concerning the subject matter of an argument compare formal fallacy * * * material fallacy noun (philosophy) A fallacy in the matter or thought, rather than in the logical form • • • Main… …
117verbal fallacy — noun : unsound reasoning that uses words ambiguously or otherwise violates a condition for the proper use of language in argument compare amphibology, fallacy of composition, fallacy of division, formal fallacy …
118informal fallacy — noun A fallacy whose error cannot be represented by the symbols used in formal logic. Ant: formal fallacy …
119Mind projection fallacy — Mind projection fallacy, as coined by physicist and bayesian philosopher E.T. Jaynes, occurs when one takes for sure that the way he sees the world reflects the way the world really is, going as far as assuming the real existence of imagined… …
120Netherlands fallacy — The Netherlands fallacy refers to an error in assuming that the environmental impacts of the Netherlands and other rich nations are contained within their national borders. Ecologists in recent years have begun to analyze the ecological sink… …
