#fallacy__falsebelief a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
supertype: #misconception an incorrect conception
subtype: #pseudoscience an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions
subtype: #astrology__stardivination a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon
subtype: #horoscopy the drawing up and interpretation of horoscopes
subtype: #alchemy a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
subtype: #logical_fallacy a fallacy in logical argumentation
subtype: #hysteron_proteron the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
subtype: #ignoratio_elenchi__ignoratioelenchi the logical fallacy of supposing that an argument proving an irrelevant point has proved the point at issue
subtype: #petitio_principii__petitio the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question
subtype: #post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc__post_hoc the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation
subtype: #pathetic_fallacy the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects; `the friendly sun' is an example of the pathetic fallacy
subtype: #sophism a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
subtype: #paralogism an unintentionally invalid argument
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