Glossary

This section contains short articles on topics that are related to the fallacies listed on this site, but are not themselves fallacies.

For this reason they also don’t appear in the index of fallacies (MD) but are only listed here:

• Equivocation (MD) – The use of a term (word, phrase, or logical connective) in two or more different meanings within the same argument or chain of reasoning.
  • Amphiboly (MD) – An ambiguity in a statement caused by its grammatical or syntactic structure rather than by the meaning of individual words.
  • Metonymy (MD) – One term is used as a substitute for another, based on an implied relationship between them.
• Extension (MD) – The totality of all objects that a term refers to.
• Intension (MD) – The set of associated meanings, connotations, and contextual information that come with how a term refers to its extension.
• Reification (MD) – turning something (abstraction, idea, human being, etc.) into a “thing”.
• Tautology (MD) – A proposition that is necessarily true in all possible circumstances, independent of external facts.

TODO:

• glossary/cargo_cult
• glossary/circlejerking
• glossary/echo_chamber
• glossary/goodharts_law
• glossary/groupthink
• glossary/halo_effect
• glossary/jargon