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Intentionality fallacy – the insistence that the ultimate meaning of an expression must be consistent with the intention of the person from whom the communication originated (e.g. a work of fiction that is widely received as a blatant allegory must necessarily not be regarded as such if the author intended it not to be so). [40]
Not to be confused with the Barber paradox. What the Tortoise Said to Achilles: If a presumption needs to be made that a specific result can be deduced from premises, then the result can never be deduced. An inference rule, which is valid (or not), cannot be a premise, which is true (or false), otherwise one has an infinite regress.
A non sequitur (English: / n ɒ n ˈ s ɛ k w ɪ t ər / non SEK-wit-ər, Classical Latin: [noːn ˈsɛkᶣɪtʊr]; "[it] does not follow") is a conversational literary device, often used for comedic purposes. It is something said that, because of its apparent lack of meaning relative to what preceded it, [1] seems absurd to the point of being ...
[12] Thus, "fallacious arguments usually have the deceptive appearance of being good arguments, [13] because for most fallacious instances of an argument form, a similar but non-fallacious instance can be found". Evaluating an instance of an argument as fallacious is therefore often a matter of evaluating the context of the argument.
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. There is no smoke without fire/Where there is smoke, there is fire; There is no such thing as a free lunch; There is no such thing as bad publicity; There is no time like the present; There are none so deaf as those who will not hear; There's nowt so queer as folk
Anthropomorphism: ascribing human characteristics to something that is not human, such as an animal or a god (see zoomorphism). Antiphrasis: a name or a phrase used ironically such that it is obvious of what the true intention is: see verbal irony. Antonomasia: substitution of a proper name for a phrase or vice versa.
We were throwing the weirdest things at the wall—in one of the choruses there’s a part that sounds like an instrument in the background, but it’s me gradually screaming louder and louder.”
The use of tautologies, however, is usually unintentional. For example, the phrases "mental telepathy", "planned conspiracies", and "small dwarfs" imply that there are such things as physical telepathy, spontaneous conspiracies, and giant dwarfs, which are oxymorons. [8] Parallelism is not