Falsehood Fallacies

Disciplines > Argument > Fallacies > Falsehood Fallacies

Perhaps the simplest form of fallacy is bare-faced lying, where the speaker deliberately tells something that is untrue, perhaps in the hope that the other person will not notice.

• Assertion: What I say is true.
• False Analogy: X has property Y. Z is like X. So Z has property Y.
• False Cause: A causes B (but no proof).
• False Compromise: Extreme views are wrong. The middle way is right.
• False Effect: A is assumed to cause B. B is proven wrong, so A is wrong.
• False Dichotomy: see False Dilemma or Excluded Middle
• False Dilemma: Choice is A or B. Rejecting A is selecting B.
• False Division: see Division
• False Metaphor: see False Analogy
• False Question: see Complex Question
• Wishful Thinking: A is true because I want it to be true.