English words for 'an unintentionally invalid argument'
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- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of an argument, to fail to be valid.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, South Africa) To break down; to become inoperable.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, computing) Of a computer program or system, to crash.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.
- fall forward and down
- an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument
- a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree
- (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
- (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
- (mathematics, computer science) A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
- (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
- (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
- (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
- (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- (countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
- (uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
- (uncountable) Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
- (countable, rare) Wisdom and knowledge.
- (countable) An intentional fallacy.
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- uplifting enlightenment
- falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
- Falsification, contamination.
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Complexity.
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- Enlightenment or education.
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- (uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning.
- (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.
- (uncountable, historical) The actions or arguments of a sophist.
- (logic) Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.
- (comedy) A kind of pun that uses a change of word, subject, or meaning to make a joke of the listener’s expectation.
- (narratology) Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.
- A statement that does not logically follow a statement that preceded it.
- a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
- (logic) a conclusion that does not follow from the premises
- An irrational statement or line of argument; a logical error.
- (art) An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.
- An inconsistency or arbitrary situation that follows no logical pattern.
- (art) An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.
- Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.
- inadvertent incorrectness
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
- taking exception; especially a quibble based on a captious argument
- translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
- brief description accompanying an illustration
- A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
- (cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
- (typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
- (Internet) A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)
- (law) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
- An unsupported claim made or implied.
- Intention or purpose not real but professed.
- (uncountable) Affectation or ostentation of manner.
- An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
- (countable or uncountable) The action of pretending; false or simulated show or appearance; false or hypocritical assertion or representation.
- an artful or simulated semblance
- pretending with intention to deceive
- the act of giving a false appearance
- a false or unsupportable quality
- imaginative intellectual play
- a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
- an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
- a male person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- Synonym of straw buyer.
- (figurative, engineering, business) An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
- (figurative) An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, e.g. by misrepresenting an opponent's argument by broadening or narrowing the scope of a premise, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related or contrasted thing or idea.
- A doll or scarecrow, particularly one stuffed with straw.
- (figurative) An innocuous person or someone of nominal or lesser importance, as a front man or straw boss.
- An untrue statement.
- Something foolish.
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
- ornamental objects of no great value
- a message that seems to convey no meaning
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- an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument
- a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree
- (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
- (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
- (mathematics, computer science) A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
- (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
- (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
- (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
- (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- (countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
- (uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
- (uncountable) Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
- (countable, rare) Wisdom and knowledge.
- (countable) An intentional fallacy.
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- uplifting enlightenment
- falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
- Falsification, contamination.
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Complexity.
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- Enlightenment or education.
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- (uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning.
- (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.
- (uncountable, historical) The actions or arguments of a sophist.
- (logic) Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.
- (comedy) A kind of pun that uses a change of word, subject, or meaning to make a joke of the listener’s expectation.
- (narratology) Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.
- A statement that does not logically follow a statement that preceded it.
- a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
- (logic) a conclusion that does not follow from the premises
- An irrational statement or line of argument; a logical error.
- (art) An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.
- An inconsistency or arbitrary situation that follows no logical pattern.
- (art) An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.
- Irrationality; the rejection of logical thinking as a means of approaching truth.
- inadvertent incorrectness
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
- taking exception; especially a quibble based on a captious argument
- translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
- brief description accompanying an illustration
- A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
- (cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
- (typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
- (Internet) A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)
- (law) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
- An unsupported claim made or implied.
- Intention or purpose not real but professed.
- (uncountable) Affectation or ostentation of manner.
- An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
- (countable or uncountable) The action of pretending; false or simulated show or appearance; false or hypocritical assertion or representation.
- an artful or simulated semblance
- pretending with intention to deceive
- the act of giving a false appearance
- a false or unsupportable quality
- imaginative intellectual play
- a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
- an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
- a male person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- Synonym of straw buyer.
- (figurative, engineering, business) An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
- (figurative) An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, e.g. by misrepresenting an opponent's argument by broadening or narrowing the scope of a premise, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related or contrasted thing or idea.
- A doll or scarecrow, particularly one stuffed with straw.
- (figurative) An innocuous person or someone of nominal or lesser importance, as a front man or straw boss.
- An untrue statement.
- Something foolish.
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
- ornamental objects of no great value
- a message that seems to convey no meaning
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- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of an argument, to fail to be valid.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, South Africa) To break down; to become inoperable.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, computing) Of a computer program or system, to crash.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.
- fall forward and down
- inadvertent incorrectness
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.