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Fallacy vs. Contradiction — What's the Difference?

Fallacy vs. Contradiction — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Fallacy and Contradiction

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Fallacy

A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves" in the construction of an argument. A fallacious argument may be deceptive by appearing to be better than it really is.

Contradiction

In traditional logic, a contradiction occurs when a proposition conflicts either with itself or established fact. It is often used as a tool to detect disingenuous beliefs and bias.

Fallacy

A false notion.

Contradiction

The act or an instance of contradicting
The witness's contradiction of other testimony.

Fallacy

A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference.
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Contradiction

The state of being contradicted
A supervisor who cannot tolerate contradiction from any subordinate.

Fallacy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness.

Contradiction

An inconsistency or discrepancy
"Surprisingly few people saw a contradiction between freedom for whites and bondage for slaves" (Adam Hochschild).

Fallacy

The quality of being deceptive.

Contradiction

Inconsistency; discrepancy
Practices that are in contradiction to human rights.

Fallacy

Deceptive or false appearance; that which misleads the eye or the mind.

Contradiction

One that contains elements that oppose or conflict with one another
The phrase "an unmarried husband" is a contradiction in terms.

Fallacy

(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.

Contradiction

The act of contradicting.
His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.

Fallacy

Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
Winning by conquest what the first man lost,By fallacy surprised.

Contradiction

(countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion and at the same time she should not have that right.
There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single.

Fallacy

An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.

Contradiction

(countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.

Fallacy

A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

Contradiction

A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.

Contradiction

An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
His fair demandsShall be accomplished without contradiction.

Contradiction

Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.
Can he make deathless death? That were to makeStrange contradiction.
We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it.
Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true.
Of contradictions infinite the slave.

Contradiction

Opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas

Contradiction

(logic) a statement that is necessarily false;
The statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction

Contradiction

The speech act of contradicting someone;
He spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction

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