Dictionary (n.) A statement that containing an illogical inference conclusion; as, 'the sky is blue, therefore it is Monday.\Thesaurus argument argument by analogy argumentum ad baculum argumentum ad captandum argumentum ad hominem bad case begging the question broken thread brokenness circular argument claptrap crowd-pleasing argument disconnectedness disconnection discontinuance discontinuation discontinuity discontinuousness discreteness disjunction empty words episode fallacy fitfulness formal fallacy hysteron proteron incoherence incompleteness insincere argument intermittence irregularity logical fallacy material fallacy mere rhetoric moonshine noncontinuance nonlinearity nonseriality nonuniformity paralogism parenthesis petitio principii philosophism pseudosyllogism solecism sophism sophistry verbal fallacy weak point |