Thesaurus:incorrect argument

THESAURUS

incorrect argument

English

Synonyms

incorrect argument
misargument
non-argument
pseudoargument

Hypernyms

argument [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

General

casuistry
fallacy
paralogism
rationalization
sophism
sophistry
formal fallacy
informal fallacy

Specific formal fallacies

affirming a disjunct
affirming the consequent
appeal to probability
base rate fallacy
conjunction fallacy
denying the antecedent
exclusive premises
existential fallacy
fallacy of four terms
illicit affirmative
illicit major
illicit minor
illicit negative
illicit substitution of identicals
masked-man fallacy
modal fallacy
modal scope fallacy
undistributed middle

Specific informal fallacies

Bulverism
Chewbacca defense
Kafkatrap
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
ad baculum
ad hominem
ad verecundiam
apex fallacy
appeal to accomplishment
appeal to authority
appeal to emotion
appeal to nature
appeal to novelty
appeal to the stone
appeal to tradition
argument from incredulity
argument to moderation
argumentum ad Lazarum
argumentum ad baculum
argumentum ad consequentiam
argumentum ad crumenam
argumentum ad dictionarium
argumentum ad feminam
argumentum ad fidem
argumentum ad hominem
argumentum ad ignorantiam
argumentum ad invidiam
argumentum ad judicium
argumentum ad nauseam
argumentum ad numerum
argumentum ad passiones
argumentum ad populum
argumentum ad verecundiam
association fallacy
bandwagon fallacy
base rate fallacy
begging the question
broken window fallacy
cherry picking
chronological snobbery
circular argument
circular reasoning
continuum fallacy
cum hoc ergo propter hoc
denying the correlative
divine fallacy
ecological fallacy
equivocation
equivocation
fallacy fallacy
fallacy of composition
false analogy
false authority
false compromise
false dichotomy
false dilemma
false equivalence
faulty generalization
furtive fallacy
gambler's fallacy
genetic fallacy
golden mean fallacy
guilty by association
hasty generalization
historian's fallacy
historical fallacy
ignoratio elenchi
inductive fallacy
ipse dixit
magical thinking
masked man fallacy
moralistic fallacy
motte-and-bailey fallacy
move the goalposts
naturalistic fallacy
negative proof
no true Scotsman fallacy
non distributio medii
non sequitur
oversimplification
package-deal fallacy
petitio principii
poison the well
pooh-pooh
post hoc
red herring
red-baiting
red-tagging
reductio ad Hitlerum
special pleading
straw man
suppressed correlative
tone policing
traitorous critic fallacy
tu quoque
two wrongs make a right
vacuous truth
vicious circle
wishful thinking

Various

Similar notions

demagogism
demagoguery
demagogy
deception [⇒ thesaurus]
misclaim
misrepresentation
misstatement
error [⇒ thesaurus]
defect [⇒ thesaurus]
falsehood [⇒ thesaurus]

Adjectives describing an argument as incorrect or weak

bad [⇒ thesaurus]
invalid
poor
incorrect
wrong
unsound
weak [⇒ thesaurus]
unconvincing
implausible
misleading
inconclusive
fallacious
erroneous
illogical
absurd [⇒ thesaurus]
specious
flawed
dishonest
deceptive [⇒ thesaurus]
stupid [⇒ thesaurus]
silly
insane [⇒ thesaurus]
irrelevant [⇒ thesaurus]

People making incorrect arguments

sophist
casuist
demagogue
deceiver [⇒ thesaurus]

Notes

Per Irving Copi's definition (see SEP), a fallacy is a seemingly correct yet incorrect argument. It is therefore a more specific notion than "incorrect argument".