A falsism is a claim that is clearly and
self-evidently wrong. A falsism is usually used merely as a reminder or as a
rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
al or literary device. An example is "pigs can fly". It is the opposite of a
truism A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device, and is the opposite of falsism.
In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions ...
.
A falsism is similar to, though not the same as, a
fallacy
A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves," in the construction of an argument which may appear stronger than it really is if the fallacy is not spotted. The term in the Western intellectual tradition was intr ...
.
See also
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Absurdity (logic)
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Straw Man argument
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Ad Hominem fallacy
''Ad hominem'' (), short for ''argumentum ad hominem'' (), refers to several types of arguments, most of which are fallacious.
Typically, this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other ...
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Slippery Slope fallacy
References
Informal fallacies
Rhetoric
Communication of falsehoods
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