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Fallacies that cannot be reduced to the structure of an argument are called informal fallacies.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Fallacies of reasoning, that is, lapses in critical thinking like guilt by association, arguments from authority.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2021

Gardner also played a key role in the founding of the US sceptical movement, countering parapsychology, psychics and other nonsense, starting with his landmark book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science in 1952.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2014

An 1886 tract called "Some Fallacies of Science" bemoaned the "high priests" whose work amounted to determining "the length of time a new poison takes to kill a guinea-pig."

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2012

This gives rise to the first great distinction, that between Fallacies of Inference, and Fallacies of Simple Inspection.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart