Collocations withfallacy
These are words often used in combination withfallacy.
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common fallacy
It is a common fallacy that the teachers are a body of very much overpaid men and women, who have easy lives and long holidays.
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ecological fallacy
However, ecological studies have limitations, the 'ecological bias ' or 'ecological fallacy ' being the major one.
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informal fallacy
A false accusation of question dodging can sometimes be made as a disingenuous tactic in debate, in the informal fallacy of the loaded question.
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logical fallacy
The all-too-common logical fallacy is to conclude that one causes the other without consideration of the possibility that both are determined by common external causes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
naturalistic fallacy
In contrast, our commitment to the naturalistic fallacy is considerably weaker.
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obvious fallacy
I suggest that the whole of this discussion has proceeded on this obvious fallacy.
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