false analogy

false analogy

English

Noun

false analogy (plural false analogies)

1. (logic) An informal fallacy applying to inductive arguments, in which the similarity in one respect of two concepts, objects, or events is taken as sufficient to establish that they are similar in another respect in which they actually are dissimilar.

Translations

informal fallacy

Czech: klamná analogie f Finnish: virheellinen analogia

Greek: ψευδής αναλογία f (psevdís analogía) Romanian: analogie greșită f, analogie falsă f, analogii false f pl