False analogy

Noun

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.NounAn 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.

Synonyms

false equivalence disanalogy analogizing analogy analogism alogicality analogicalness analogization counteranalogy analogousness anal.alogicalness

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