English Explanatory Dictionary

false analogy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An 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.

Word forms

false analogy false analogies
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