Definist fallacy may refer to: *

Persuasive definition A persuasive definition is a form of stipulative definition which purports to describe the true or commonly accepted meaning of a term, while in reality stipulating an uncommon or altered use, usually to support an argument for some view, or to cr ...

, misrepresenting an idiosyncratic definition as a term's common meaning * A purported fallacy involving the definition of one property in terms of another, described by William Frankena as part of a 1939 critique of G.E. Moore's writing about the naturalistic fallacy

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