#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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