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Conceptual/Framing Fallacy

The claim is distorted by bad categories, rigid framing, or confused conceptual boundaries.

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19 fallacies in this family.

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What bad category, rigid frame, or confused boundary is distorting the claim?

Family vs. category

A family is the broad umbrella that gives a fallacy its main home. Categories are the narrower diagnostic tags, so the same fallacy can appear in multiple categories while still belonging to one family.

Abstraction denial

Occurs when someone denies the reality or causal relevance of a higher-level pattern just because the pattern is realized through lower-level parts.

Conceptual

Intermediate Intro college

Abstraction denial companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when someone denies the reality or causal relevance of a higher-level pattern just because the pattern is realized through lower-level parts.

Abstraction fallacy

Occurs when a model, law, or abstraction drawn from experience is treated as if it were a logically necessary rule that reality cannot ever depart from.

Conceptual

Intermediate Intro college

Abstraction fallacy companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when a model, law, or abstraction drawn from experience is treated as if it were a logically necessary rule that reality cannot ever depart from.

All or nothing fallacy

Occurs when support for part of a view, or problems with part of a view, are treated as if they force total acceptance or total rejection of the whole package.

EpistemicEvidential

Intermediate Intro college

All or nothing fallacy companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when support for part of a view, or problems with part of a view, are treated as if they force total acceptance or total rejection of the whole package.

Artificial negation

Occurs when the wording of a negative position is manipulated so that mere non-belief is treated as if it were the same thing as a strong positive denial.

EpistemicEvidential

Intermediate Intro college

Artificial negation companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when the wording of a negative position is manipulated so that mere non-belief is treated as if it were the same thing as a strong positive denial.

Continuum fallacy

Occurs when a claim is rejected simply because the concept involved has blurry boundaries rather than a perfectly sharp cutoff.

ConceptualLinguistic

Intermediate Intro college

Continuum fallacy companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when a claim is rejected simply because the concept involved has blurry boundaries rather than a perfectly sharp cutoff.

Denying a remote hypothetical

Occurs when a hypothetical test case is dismissed as irrelevant merely because it is rare, extreme, or unlikely, even though the principle under debate is supposed to be...

EvidentialConceptual

Intermediate Intro college

Denying a remote hypothetical companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when a hypothetical test case is dismissed as irrelevant merely because it is rare, extreme, or unlikely, even though the principle under debate is supposed to be universal.

Denying the correlative

Occurs when one side of a genuine contrast is denied or redefined so the opposing term has no place to apply.

Conceptual

Intermediate Intro college

Denying the correlative companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when one side of a genuine contrast is denied or redefined so the opposing term has no place to apply.

Fallacy of necessity

Occurs when a condition that is necessary given someone's current description is treated as if it were permanently or universally necessary in the real world.

LinguisticConceptual

Advanced Intro college

Fallacy of necessity companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when a condition that is necessary given someone's current description is treated as if it were permanently or universally necessary in the real world.

False dilemma

Occurs when someone presents a limited set of options as if they were the only live possibilities, while reasonable alternatives are ignored or suppressed.

Conceptual

Intermediate High school

False dilemma companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when someone presents a limited set of options as if they were the only live possibilities, while reasonable alternatives are ignored or suppressed.

For the sake of argument denial

Occurs when a hypothetical premise is rejected simply because the speaker does not actually believe it.

ConceptualEpistemic

Advanced Intro college

For the sake of argument denial companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when a hypothetical premise is rejected simply because the speaker does not actually believe it.

Historian's fallacy

Occurs when people in the past are judged as if they had the same information, background assumptions, and hindsight available to later observers.

Perspectival

Intermediate Intro college

Historian's fallacy companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when people in the past are judged as if they had the same information, background assumptions, and hindsight available to later observers.

Human standard fallacy

Occurs when a human classification, rule, or label is treated as if it automatically determined the underlying fact or moral status.

ConceptualPerspectival

Intermediate Intro college

Human standard fallacy companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when a human classification, rule, or label is treated as if it automatically determined the underlying fact or moral status.

Is-ought problem

Occurs when a descriptive claim about what is common, natural, or actual is treated as if it directly established what ought to be done.

Conceptual

Intermediate Intro college

Is-ought problem companion poster in a retro mid-century editorial cartoon style, illustrating occurs when a descriptive claim about what is common, natural, or actual is treated as if it directly established what ought to be done.

Naturalistic fallacy

Occurs when something is treated as good, safe, or morally preferable mainly because it is called natural, traditional, or closer to nature.

ConceptualEvidential

Intermediate Intro college

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Overwhelming exception

Occurs when a general principle is padded with so many exceptions that it no longer guides action or says much of substance.

LinguisticConceptual

Advanced Intro college

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Package-deal fallacy

Occurs when traits that are often bundled together by stereotype, tradition, or habit are treated as if they must always come as a package.

Conceptual

Intermediate Intro college

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Pathetic fallacy

Occurs when human feelings, intentions, or judgments are projected onto impersonal things and then treated as if the projection explained reality.

ConceptualPerspectival

Advanced Intro college

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Psychologist's fallacy

Occurs when someone projects their own motives, fears, or mental structure onto others and treats that projection as insight into those other people.

Perspectival

Intermediate Intro college

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Reification

Occurs when an abstraction is spoken of as if it were a concrete agent or thing in a way that misleads rather than merely using harmless metaphor.

ConceptualLinguisticPerspectival

Advanced Intro college

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