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A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The term was introduced in the Western intellectual tradition by the Aristotelian De Sophisticis Elenchis.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Fallacy | is a | use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed | 0.90 | text |
| Fallacy | is a | flaw in the structure of a deductive argument that renders the argument invalid | 0.90 | text |
| Fallacy | is a | error in what the arguer is talking about | 0.90 | text |
| Fallacy | is a | cognitive bias where association identified in observational studies are misinterpreted as causal relationships.A naturalistic fallacy can occur | 0.90 | text |
| carelessness | instance of | unintentionally because of human limitations | 0.80 | text |
| cognitive or social biases | instance of | unintentionally because of human limitations | 0.80 | text |
| ignorance | instance of | unintentionally because of human limitations | 0.80 | text |
| or potentially due to the limitations of language | instance of | unintentionally because of human limitations | 0.80 | text |
| understanding of language | instance of | unintentionally because of human limitations | 0.80 | text |
| television | instance of | are frequently found in mass media | 0.80 | text |
| newspapers | instance of | are frequently found in mass media | 0.80 | text |
| linguistic | instance of | The classification of informal fallacies may be subdivided into categories | 0.80 | text |
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